. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. Beacon Streets. For a long time the handsome spire of Park Street Churchwas the highest object seen on approaching the city. It, how-ever, succumbed to its neighbor in Somerset Street, placed at agreater altitude. As one of the monuments of the Common itis inseparable from the landscape, the slender, graceful steeplyrising majestically above the tree-tops from any point of obser-vation. The little monitor of the weather on its pinnaclerecalls the lines of Albert G. Greene : — The dawn has broke, the mom is up,Another day begun ;And there thy p
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. Beacon Streets. For a long time the handsome spire of Park Street Churchwas the highest object seen on approaching the city. It, how-ever, succumbed to its neighbor in Somerset Street, placed at agreater altitude. As one of the monuments of the Common itis inseparable from the landscape, the slender, graceful steeplyrising majestically above the tree-tops from any point of obser-vation. The little monitor of the weather on its pinnaclerecalls the lines of Albert G. Greene : — The dawn has broke, the mom is up,Another day begun ;And there thy poised and gikled spearIs flashing in the sun, A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 301 Upon tliat steeji and lofty tower, Where thou thy watch liast kept,A true and faithful sentinel, Wliile all around thee slept. The church was erected in 1809, and was the first Congrega-tional Society constituted since 1748. From the fervor of thedoctrines i^reaclied within its walls, its site has been known asBrimstone Corner, — a name too suggestive to be PARK STREKT Edward D. (Iriffin, D. D., was tlie first pastor. Pwight, Imm-cIkt,Stone, and other gifted preacliers liave occupied its j) were vaults — long since removed — for the Banner, an Englisli architect, the same who made the planf.)r the fine old mansion-house of Eben Crafts in Ivoxbury, de-signed this church. The Manufactory House of the old colony times stood on theeast side of what is Hamilton Place. The west end frontedLong Acre, or Tremont Street, and had delmeated upon the 302 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.
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