. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. r it wasBack Street. Christ Church spire has long dominated over tliis locality,and served as a landmark for vessels entering the harbor. It isthe oldest church in Boston standing on its original ground,lia\dng been, erected in 1723, — six years before the Old the fifteen churches built previous to 1750, only sevenoccupy their original sites ; the others may be found in thenew city which has sprung up as if by magic in tlie old bedof Charles liiver. This was the second Episcopal Church erected in the has been in its day consid
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. r it wasBack Street. Christ Church spire has long dominated over tliis locality,and served as a landmark for vessels entering the harbor. It isthe oldest church in Boston standing on its original ground,lia\dng been, erected in 1723, — six years before the Old the fifteen churches built previous to 1750, only sevenoccupy their original sites ; the others may be found in thenew city which has sprung up as if by magic in tlie old bedof Charles liiver. This was the second Episcopal Church erected in the has been in its day considered one of the chief architecturalornaments of the Xortli End. The body of the church has theplain monotonous style peculiar to all the old houses of wor-sliip, but thesteej^le — thedesign ofCharles Ikil-finch — beau-tifies the wholestructure. Theold steeple wasblown down inthe great galeof 1804, fall-ing upon anold woodenbuilding at thecorner of Tiles-ton Street,through whichit crashed, tothe consterna-tion of thetenants, who,however, es-. CHRIST * 214 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. caped injury. In rebuilding, the height was shortened about sixteen feet by Joseph Tucker, the builder. Over the entrance is a plain tablet with the name and date of the house. It is generally known that from this steeple — which wasvisible far and near — warning was given of the intendedmarch to Lexington and Concord. Paul Eeveres narrativegives -a relation of the method : — On Tuesday evening, the 18th of April, 1775, it was observedthat a number of soldiers were marching towards Boston ten oclock Dr. Warren sent in great haste for me, and beggedthat I would immediately set off for Lexington, where were Hancockand Adams, and acquaint them of the movement, and that it wasthought they were tlie objects. The Sunday before, by desire ofDr. Warren, I had been to Lexington to see Hancock and Adams,who were at Rev, Mr. Clarks. I returned at night, through Charlestown. There I
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