A guide-book of Boston for physicians . THE JOHN HANCOCK HOUSE GUIDE TO BOSTON 27 Vernon Street side was built. The State House Annex, the por-tion of the building extending back to Derne Street, crossingMt. Vernon Street by an arch, was built on the site of the old. STATE HOUSE stone reservoir in 1889. The dome was first gilded in 1874, andof late years it has been illuminated at night by rows of electriclights. On the highest of the three original peaks of the hill risingto the rear, and north of the Bulfinch Front, the Beacon, fromwhich the hill takes its name, was erected early in 1600, to
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . THE JOHN HANCOCK HOUSE GUIDE TO BOSTON 27 Vernon Street side was built. The State House Annex, the por-tion of the building extending back to Derne Street, crossingMt. Vernon Street by an arch, was built on the site of the old. STATE HOUSE stone reservoir in 1889. The dome was first gilded in 1874, andof late years it has been illuminated at night by rows of electriclights. On the highest of the three original peaks of the hill risingto the rear, and north of the Bulfinch Front, the Beacon, fromwhich the hill takes its name, was erected early in 1600, towarn the country of danger. It consisted of an iron skillet, filledwith combustibles, suspended from a mast. An IndependenceMonument, the first in America, designed by Bulfinch, waserected on the site of the Beacon in I790,andin 1811,when thepeak was levelled, this monument was destroyed, only the tabletsand the gilded wooden eagle which surmounted it being pre-served. The present monument, a reproduction of the Bulfinchone, was erected by the Bunker Hill Monument Associationin 1898, as nearly as possible on the site of the original beacon. 28 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION In front of the State House are the statues of Horace Mann,by Emma Stebbins, on the side
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