Boston illustrated; . iged to leave Boston, services were suspended, andthe British soldiery used the building as a barrack. A cannon-ball from a bat-tery in Cambridge or from a ship of war in Charles River struck the church ;and this memento of the glorious contest was afterwards built into the externalwall of the building, above the porch. Among the long line of eminent clergy-men who have been pastors of this church, may be mentioned the late EdwardEverett, and John G. Palfrey. The old church Avas sold in 1871, and the lastservice was held in it July 30 of that year, a memorial sermon being
Boston illustrated; . iged to leave Boston, services were suspended, andthe British soldiery used the building as a barrack. A cannon-ball from a bat-tery in Cambridge or from a ship of war in Charles River struck the church ;and this memento of the glorious contest was afterwards built into the externalwall of the building, above the porch. Among the long line of eminent clergy-men who have been pastors of this church, may be mentioned the late EdwardEverett, and John G. Palfrey. The old church Avas sold in 1871, and the lastservice was held in it July 30 of that year, a memorial sermon being preacliedon that occasion by the pastor, Rev. Dr. S. K. Lothrop. The ancient pulpit,the old bell, the organ, the historic cannon-ball, and some other mementoes,were reserved at the sale. The society built a new church in the Back Baydistrict which is noticed elsewhere. Two of the most noticeable, though not the most extensive, of the streetimprovements of recent years, have taken place within the district we have de-. 22 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. fined as the North End. The first was the removal of an nninteresting oldstructure, a landmark and meeting-place in the Boston of a dozen years ago,known as Scollays Building, and the creation thereby of what is now calledScoUay Square. This square is the most irregular of triangles. Court Streetempties into it in the most curious way possible, and for a time the left side ofthe street is lost. It is Tremont Row where it ought to be Court Street. Thenthe right side is similarly lost. Court Street and Sudbury Street being sepa-rated by as invisible a line as is the equator. But finally both parts of the streetresume their course after a space where there is no Court Street, until the won-derful avenue loses itself at last in Bowdoin Square. Scollay Square is nowa sort of street-railroad centre. Within it is the bronze statue of GovernorWinthrop, a duplicate of that standing in the Capitol at Wasliington. It rep-resents Winthrop as he landed
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