Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . ^ feet square at its base, and rises to the apex, two hundred. OLD IRONSIDES. 96 GUIDE TO BOSTON. and twenty feet. The observatory at the top is reached by aspiral flight of two hundred and ninety-five stone steps. It is aweary climb, but the magnificent views from the windows am-ply repay one for the effort. In the lodge at the base of themonument is a museum containing various memorials of thebattle, a statue of General Warren, and a model of the firstmonument. The monument was designed by Greenough. Itwas begun in 1825, completed in 1842
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . ^ feet square at its base, and rises to the apex, two hundred. OLD IRONSIDES. 96 GUIDE TO BOSTON. and twenty feet. The observatory at the top is reached by aspiral flight of two hundred and ninety-five stone steps. It is aweary climb, but the magnificent views from the windows am-ply repay one for the effort. In the lodge at the base of themonument is a museum containing various memorials of thebattle, a statue of General Warren, and a model of the firstmonument. The monument was designed by Greenough. Itwas begun in 1825, completed in 1842, and formally dedicated onJune 17, 1843. The occasion was a memorable one. PresidentJohn Tyler, with the members of his cabinet, were among themen of distinction present, and Mr. Webster was theorator, A memorial stone in the path-edge near the mon-ument is supposed to mark the spot where Warren fell,but the actual place was further north, at the headof Pleasant Street, where the Methodist Church now spot where Prescott stood at the opening of the fight ismarked by Storys bronze portrait statue of P
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