. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ROUND WINDOW OF ORIGINAL BUILDING Noiv seen only by ascending to the loft i. Pastorate of Ezra Stiles Ely. 193 side. We find from the minute description of thiswork that the foundations of the brick wall were sixfeet deep and seventeen inches wide. This wall stooduntil 1903, when it was taken down and a new andstronger wall built upon the old foundation upon thesouth side, and a new iron fence upon granite base,of which we are now so proud, was erected alongFourth Street, to match t
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ROUND WINDOW OF ORIGINAL BUILDING Noiv seen only by ascending to the loft i. Pastorate of Ezra Stiles Ely. 193 side. We find from the minute description of thiswork that the foundations of the brick wall were sixfeet deep and seventeen inches wide. This wall stooduntil 1903, when it was taken down and a new andstronger wall built upon the old foundation upon thesouth side, and a new iron fence upon granite base,of which we are now so proud, was erected alongFourth Street, to match the original fence still stand-ing along Pine Street. These beautiful improvementswere the forerunners of the reconstruction of the entirehouse of worship. Dr. Ely left the old house as itappears in the old print on page 16. This was a sin-gle story, with gable ends. These gables were almostprecisely the same as the Old Saint Peters. A photo-graph of one of the windows that adorned this plainarchitecture is reproduced in this volume. The top ofthe church was not disturbed, but raised bodily, andthese windows can be seen just as they were constructedby ascending to the loft to-day. Th
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