Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . nt story is of rusticated dressed granite, and the others of brick. Alarge amount of iron is used in the structure, which givesit an air of grandeur and solidity. Visitors to the cupola are required (o inscribe theirnames on a register. For the enlargement of the iState House, the city islargely indebted to the activity and perseverance of theHon. F. Brinley, then a senator from Suffolk County. One of llie first objects that attract the attention ofa stranger, on entering the State House, is the statue 68 BOSTON A^fi.) VICINITY, of Washi
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . nt story is of rusticated dressed granite, and the others of brick. Alarge amount of iron is used in the structure, which givesit an air of grandeur and solidity. Visitors to the cupola are required (o inscribe theirnames on a register. For the enlargement of the iState House, the city islargely indebted to the activity and perseverance of theHon. F. Brinley, then a senator from Suffolk County. One of llie first objects that attract the attention ofa stranger, on entering the State House, is the statue 68 BOSTON A^fi.) VICINITY, of Washington, by Sir F. Chiintrey, which is placed inthe rotunda. This statue was purchased by private sub-scription, and was placed where it now stands in 1828. Fac-similes of the Memorial Tablets of the Washing-ton Family, presented to Hon. Charles Sumner byEarl Spencer, and by Hon. Charles Sumner to the Com-monwealth, are placed upon the marble floor in front ofthe statue. Bronze statues of Daniel Webster and Hor-ace Mann stand in front of the State The Hancock House. — Until the year 1863, nearthe capitol, on the west, stood the mansion-house of theeminent patriot, John Hancock. On the east, at aboutthe same distance, was situated the dwelling of the lateJames Bowdoin, another patriot of the Revolution, a dis-tinguished scholar and philosoj)hcr, and who, by his firnT ABLETS t^ THE WaSHiJ^ ^^ WHICH THK StATUK OF WASHINGTON „;k, Boston, Massachusetts. TVk or! F Ol. THE FAC-SIMILES OF THE MEMORIAL TABLETS Washington , i-kumankntly i-lackd uiON the maublk floou oi- the arka ,.v ,vi„c„ -rn,.- Statlk oi STANDS, WITHIN THE IN FKONT OF SAID StATUE, IN THE StATE HOUSE, BostoN, MASSACHUSETTS. Washington W lUilil: INTKHIlICr) V IIOIIIKH Ol : W.\S111.\«;T()N wiMiioHi:, WHO this i,ii k fok imoiiiai-mtik V 19 Ol MAIK H UiTi- As ALSO V llODV OK KoKKIlT Washinotox <;i;nt: ni:it : HVsriAxi) .sKcoxii SONXi: OI RollJUtT WASHIXOTOX ol
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