Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ing-school nurses, is designed in accordance with themost approved models. The buildings are sub-stantial, dignified, and sober in style, the only at-tempt at architectural effect being made in the cen-tral structure, in the design of its fagade, and thedome which crowns it. With their well-keptgrounds they cover a square containing nearly sevenacres.^ The Church of the Immaculate Conceptionand the Boston College were both built under theauspices
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ing-school nurses, is designed in accordance with themost approved models. The buildings are sub-stantial, dignified, and sober in style, the only at-tempt at architectural effect being made in the cen-tral structure, in the design of its fagade, and thedome which crowns it. With their well-keptgrounds they cover a square containing nearly sevenacres.^ The Church of the Immaculate Conceptionand the Boston College were both built under theauspices of the Jesuit Fathers, and completed in1860-61. The church was one of the first stonechurch buildings in the city. It is a solid granitestructure, without tower or spire, and the peculiar-ity of its design at once attracts attention. The See chapter c ? West End; paragraph on Ne 2 The Home for Convalescents, in connection with the hospital, ispleasantly situated on Dorchester avenue, Dorchester district. Theestate consists of fifteen acres of land, partly under cultivation andpartly woodland. The City Hospital was first established in 76 BOSTON OF TO-DAY. statues of the Virgin and of the Saviour, with out-stretched arms, the former placed above the entranceand the latter above all, are the striking features ofthe facade, marking the character of the edifice andthe great church organization to which it the interior, however, the most elaborate workis seen. Two rows of Ionic columns, with richly orna-mented capitals, mark the line of the side the keystone of the chancel arch is a bust rep-resenting Christ; on the opposite arch, over thechoir-gallery, one representing the Virgin ; on thecapitals of the columns, busts of the saints of theSociety of Jesus; and over each column a figurerepresenting an angel supporting the altar is of marble and richly ornamented. Onthe panels an abridgment of the life of the Virginis sculptured, and on eith
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