Boston illustrated; . in the building. The great hall has been celebrated,of late years, as the place where the Rev. Joseph Cook has discussed theologicaland secular questions in the Monday Lecture before large audiences. A fine piece of architecture is the Horticultural Hall on Tremont Street,between Bromfield Street and Montgomery Place. It was erected by the Mas-sachusetts Horticultural Society, and is one of the most perfectly classical ^ ^ buildings in the city. It is builtof white gran-it e, beaut i-fully dressed,and the exte-rior is massiveand elegant front issurmounted
Boston illustrated; . in the building. The great hall has been celebrated,of late years, as the place where the Rev. Joseph Cook has discussed theologicaland secular questions in the Monday Lecture before large audiences. A fine piece of architecture is the Horticultural Hall on Tremont Street,between Bromfield Street and Montgomery Place. It was erected by the Mas-sachusetts Horticultural Society, and is one of the most perfectly classical ^ ^ buildings in the city. It is builtof white gran-it e, beaut i-fully dressed,and the exte-rior is massiveand elegant front issurmounted bya granite statueof Ceres ; andon the northand south but-tresses of thesecond storiesare ideal stat-ues in graniteof Flora andPomona byMartin Mil-more. The lower floor of the building is occupied for business purposes, and above are twohalls, not very large, yet adapted not only to their origmal purpose, for themeetings and exliibitions of the society, but for parlor concerts, lectures, socialgatherings, and and Studio Building BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 87 The Studio Building, showu in the accompanying illustration, stands on theopposite corner of Bromfield Street. This building was at one time a head-quarters of the artists of Boston, but now many of them are located the devotees of art, there are many private teachers of music and thelanguages in the Studio Building, and a few of the rooms are occupied as bach-elors apartments. Standmg on Tremont Street, at the head of Hamilton Place, and lookingdown the place, one may see the side entrance to a plam and lofty brick budd-mg without ornament or architectural pretensions of any sort. This buildmg isthe Boston Music Hall, one of the noblest public halls in the world. It wasbuilt by private enterprise, and first opened to the public in 1852. The acous-tic properties of the hall are perfect. As Dr. Holmes has said, it is a kind ofpassive musical instrument, or at least a sounding-board constructed on theoreti
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