Boston illustrated; . eet on Washington Street, and extends back to Hawley Street two hundredand twenty-five feet. This building is nearly an exact copy of that on the samespot which was destroyed in the great fire. Boston owes to the fire of 1872 a group of buildings which are among themost stately andcostly of any inthe city. Thesehave been erectedby life insurancecompanies for themost part in theimmediate neigh-borhood of thenew magnificentmarble buildingof the MutualLife InsuranceCompany ofXew York is oneof the most beau-tiful as well asone of the mostexpensive ofthem. It f
Boston illustrated; . eet on Washington Street, and extends back to Hawley Street two hundredand twenty-five feet. This building is nearly an exact copy of that on the samespot which was destroyed in the great fire. Boston owes to the fire of 1872 a group of buildings which are among themost stately andcostly of any inthe city. Thesehave been erectedby life insurancecompanies for themost part in theimmediate neigh-borhood of thenew magnificentmarble buildingof the MutualLife InsuranceCompany ofXew York is oneof the most beau-tiful as well asone of the mostexpensive ofthem. It frontssixty-one feet onMilk and one him-dred and twenty-seven feet onPearl Street, andis constructed offine white marbLfrom the Tucka-hoe quarry. It isintended to b (file - proof, t h iwmdow-sashes oiiron being set inmarble frames,while all the floorsare constructed whollv of incom- Building of the Mutual Lite Insuiance of New York. bustible material. The architecture of the exterior is the modern French de-. 96 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. tail, adorned with elaborate carvings, and crowned by a lofty Mansard chief feature is a beautiful marble tower, rising from the centre of themain front to a height of 130 feet, and terminating in a gracefvd spire. Onthe upper part of the tower is a large clock ; and an alarm-bell hangs the top of the spire is an observatory, surromided by a brass handsome new building of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Companystands on thecorner ofMilk andCongressstreets, withV, frontage offifty feet onthe formerand one huu-d r e d andeighty - onefeet on thelatter street,and is one ofthe chief(irnaments ofPost - OfficeSquare. It isbuilt of whiteCon cor dgranite, e x -cept the base-ment, whichis of Quincygranite, i nthe Renais-sance style buildino-
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