. The street railway review . ard of the canons of the church, but I never saw its portholesbefore. Richard Grant White says: It is the perfect model of a NewEngland meeting house of the highest style. It delights the eyeby its firm, symmetrical proportions; and its octagonal spire,springing from an airy eight-arched loggia, is one of the finest ofits kind, not only in this country, but in the world. Nothing morelight, elegant, or graceful could be found. The Ijiberty Tree stood near the southeast corner of Essex andWashington streets, where a large carving representing it may beseen high up o
. The street railway review . ard of the canons of the church, but I never saw its portholesbefore. Richard Grant White says: It is the perfect model of a NewEngland meeting house of the highest style. It delights the eyeby its firm, symmetrical proportions; and its octagonal spire,springing from an airy eight-arched loggia, is one of the finest ofits kind, not only in this country, but in the world. Nothing morelight, elegant, or graceful could be found. The Ijiberty Tree stood near the southeast corner of Essex andWashington streets, where a large carving representing it may beseen high up on the front of 630 Washington street. The groundabout and under the great elm. Liberty Tree, was called LibertyHall, and here the 300 Sons of Liberty held their public meetingsand festivities and organized revolution, during the last years ofBritish rule. Their signal flag floating from the staff extendingthrough the branches summoned the patriot bands; and many afiery speech was heard here, many an effigy of a hated Royalist. W.^SHINGTON ELM —CAMBRIDGE. hung from the branches; the British garrison had the tree cutdown in 1775. The Liberty Tavern long occupied the site. Herenow stands the office of The Pilot. The site of the Boston massacre is marked by a wLeel-shapedarrangement of the paving-stones in State street, where Ex-change street crosses. Here, the British main guard, provokedby missiles and epithets, fired upon the people, and killed andwounded nine persons. A bronze tablet on the Merchants Na-tional Bank says: Opposite this spot was shed the first blood ofthe American Revolution, March 5, 1770. Boston Common has amonument to this event. West street leads westward, by various music, candy, flowerand other shops, and the Universalist Publishing house, at , to Boston Common, at the ancient site of the whipping-postand pillory. At 13 West street, Hawthorne for years courtedSophia Peabody, to v. hom he was married here in 1S12, by Jai^iesFreeman Clarke, who in 1SG4
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