Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . a visit to the beautiful Shaw Memorial oppo-site (Sec page 51), and then crossing Beacon Street enter theState House. The part of the noble building facing BeaconStreet, and designed by Charles Bulfinch, was completed in the la3^ing of the corner-stone in 1795 Paul Revere was mas-ter of ceremonies, and Samuel Adams delivered the oration. Afew years before, the ground on which it stands was John Han-cocks cow pasture. There are statues of Daniel Webster andHorace Mann, the great educator, on the Beacon Street grounds,the latter have bee
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . a visit to the beautiful Shaw Memorial oppo-site (Sec page 51), and then crossing Beacon Street enter theState House. The part of the noble building facing BeaconStreet, and designed by Charles Bulfinch, was completed in the la3^ing of the corner-stone in 1795 Paul Revere was mas-ter of ceremonies, and Samuel Adams delivered the oration. Afew years before, the ground on which it stands was John Han-cocks cow pasture. There are statues of Daniel Webster andHorace Mann, the great educator, on the Beacon Street grounds,the latter have been paid for by Boston school-children. The granite column on the east grounds, surmounted by abronze eagle, commemorates the beaccn which gave the nameto Beacon Hill. The tablets on its base formerly decorated amonument of brick and stone erected in 1791. A bronze statueof General Devens stands near by. The State House groundsextend east as far as Bowdoin Street, the old buildings havingbeen removed in 1901. The proposition in recent years to tear. 84 GUIDE TO BOSTON. down the State House brought out so many remonstrances thatit has been repaired, the cupola on the dome rebuilt on Bulfinchsplan, and the interior arrangements restored as far as possible totheir original condition. Meantime, an extension has been built,four times the size of the original building, and involving a costof $5,000,000. Entering the State House from Beacon Street, the visitor firststeps into Doric Hall. Here arc statues of George Washington,by Sir Francis Chantrey, and of Governor John A. Andrew, byThomas Ball. Here also are two brass cannon, consecrating thenames of Major John Buttrick and Captain Isaac Davis, whosevalour and example excited their fellow citizens to a success-ful resistance of a superior number of British troops, at Con-cord bridge, April 19, 1775; two brass cannon captured in the warof 1812; a tablet in inemory of Charles Bulfinch, architect; a tab-let to commemorate the preservation
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