A guide-book of Boston for physicians . right,Waltham Street. Here, at No. 41, is the Washingtonian Home,an institution for the care and treatment of male alcoholics. Ithas accommodations for aboutthirty patients. On the left of WashingtonStreet, at the corder of MaidenStreet, is the Cathedral of theHoly Cross, a large and impos-ing stone structure. This is thelargest Catholic church in NewEngland, and is the headquar-ters of the archdiocese. Thearchbishops house and officesare behind the cathedral, fa-cing Harrison Avenue. In frontof the cathedral is a bronzestatue of Christopher Colum-bus, b
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . right,Waltham Street. Here, at No. 41, is the Washingtonian Home,an institution for the care and treatment of male alcoholics. Ithas accommodations for aboutthirty patients. On the left of WashingtonStreet, at the corder of MaidenStreet, is the Cathedral of theHoly Cross, a large and impos-ing stone structure. This is thelargest Catholic church in NewEngland, and is the headquar-ters of the archdiocese. Thearchbishops house and officesare behind the cathedral, fa-cing Harrison Avenue. In frontof the cathedral is a bronzestatue of Christopher Colum-bus, by Alois Buy ens. Beyond this point such crossstreets as continue the samename on both sides of Washington Street have the prefix u Eastadded to that part at the left, and West to that on the right. At Brookline Street one comes to two open squares, — Frank-lin on the left, and Blackstone on the right. At the corner ofEast Brookline Street, facing Franklin Square, the SalvationArmy is erecting a Peoples Palace, which will also be the. ST. ELIZABETH S HOSPITAL 40 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION headquarters of the army for New England. On the oppositeside of the square is the Franklin Square House, a hotel foryoung workingwomen. It occupies the building that was for-merly the New England Conservatory of Music, and which, pre-vious to that, had been the St. James Hotel. Beyond the Frank-lin Square House is the old, but not particularly interesting,South Cemetery. At No. 6l West Brookline Street, and facing BlackstoneSquare, is St. Elizabeths Hospital, in charge of the Franciscan Sis-ters. This institution was founded in 1868, incorporated in 1872,and has been on its present site since 1888. The hospital occu-
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