Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . Old Elm turn into Mason Street and cross toBrattle Street. Just around the turn from Mason Streetare the buildings of St. Johns Theological School (Epis-copalian). Turning to the right, on Brattle Street, youenter the old Tory Row of Provincial days. This wasthen, says Bacon, the exclusive quarter of the town, asIt is now one of the most attractive parts of the city. Loyalistsowned and occupied almost every estate bordering on this streetbetween Brattle Square, where it begins, and Mount estates were expansive and elegant, with
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . Old Elm turn into Mason Street and cross toBrattle Street. Just around the turn from Mason Streetare the buildings of St. Johns Theological School (Epis-copalian). Turning to the right, on Brattle Street, youenter the old Tory Row of Provincial days. This wasthen, says Bacon, the exclusive quarter of the town, asIt is now one of the most attractive parts of the city. Loyalistsowned and occupied almost every estate bordering on this streetbetween Brattle Square, where it begins, and Mount estates were expansive and elegant, with gardens and or-chards, extending to the river. There were seven families ofthem connected by relationship, and they composed a selectsocial circle to which few others were admitted. When theRevolution broke out all of the occupants of the Row becamerefugees and their mansions were confiscated by the ProvincialGovernment. Of these mansions, two or three, besides theLongfellow and Lowell houses, yet remain. The first is the Gen- 114 GUIDE TO ENTRANCE TO MT. AUBURN CEMETERY. cral William Brattle house, near Brattle Square, now occupiedby the Social Union. On the corner of Hawthorne Street is the Henry VassallHouse, built early in the eighteenth century. Across theway is the stately Colonel John Vassall House, headquar-ters of Washington while in Cambridge; after the war for awhile the dwelling of Nathaniel Tracy, from Newburyport; thenoccupied by Thomas Russell; then the dwelling of AndrewCragie, who maintained it magnificently; in later periods lived inby Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, Joseph Worcester, the lexi-cographer; and from 1835 to the death of the poet, the home ofLongfellow. The public ground which the mansion-house faces,was reserved through the efiforts of the Longfellow MemorialAssociation. Over and beyond a view of the marshes and theriver, which the poet has celebrated, with the Longfellow Parkon the Brighton side of the stream, given by Longfellow andothe
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