Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . OLD READING ROOM OF THE BOSTON ATHEN^UM, BEACON EXTERIOR OF ATHENAEUM TODAY. IN OLD BOSTON 391 of from $1000 to $2000, which, with variousspecial funds, was spent judiciously in acces-sions. The Athenaeum has had many homes. FromCongress Street it went to Scollays Building,in what is today Scollay Square, and in March,1809, a house was purchased on TremontStreet, on the site of what was until a few yearsago the home of the Massachusetts HistoricalSociety. Here it continued, its collect
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . OLD READING ROOM OF THE BOSTON ATHEN^UM, BEACON EXTERIOR OF ATHENAEUM TODAY. IN OLD BOSTON 391 of from $1000 to $2000, which, with variousspecial funds, was spent judiciously in acces-sions. The Athenaeum has had many homes. FromCongress Street it went to Scollays Building,in what is today Scollay Square, and in March,1809, a house was purchased on TremontStreet, on the site of what was until a few yearsago the home of the Massachusetts HistoricalSociety. Here it continued, its collection of booksgradually increasing in number until 1822, whenit received from James Perkins the noble giftof his mansion house on Pearl Street, to be usedas the librarys home. At this time it possessedover 17,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets. The rules provided for the free accommoda-tion in the reading room of the governor andhis council, the lieutenant-governor and mem-bers of the Massachusetts legislature, judges ofthe supreme courts and courts of the UnitedStates, officers and resident graduates of Har-vard, Amherst and Williams College, and of theH
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