Boston illustrated; . In 1873, a colossal copy of thesame group was made for the Freedmens Memorial, at Washington. Theface of the negro was a likeness of the last slave remanded to the South under 46 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. the fugitive slave law, studied from photographs. The group now in Bostonwas presented to the city by the Hon. Moses Kimball, a public-spirited citizen,who long lived on Boylston Street nearby. It stands on a small triangularplat, and is surrounded by a granite retaiuing-wall and bronze railing, thepedestal being formed by two steps of Cape-Ann granite, and an octagonalblock o
Boston illustrated; . In 1873, a colossal copy of thesame group was made for the Freedmens Memorial, at Washington. Theface of the negro was a likeness of the last slave remanded to the South under 46 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. the fugitive slave law, studied from photographs. The group now in Bostonwas presented to the city by the Hon. Moses Kimball, a public-spirited citizen,who long lived on Boylston Street nearby. It stands on a small triangularplat, and is surrounded by a granite retaiuing-wall and bronze railing, thepedestal being formed by two steps of Cape-Ann granite, and an octagonalblock of polished red granite weighing sixteen tons. The bronze was cast atMunich and cost $17,000. The height of the entire work is nearly twentv-flve feet. It was unveiled December 6, 1879. The station of the Boston and Providence Railroad, although surpassed insize by a few structures of the kind, is inferior to none, in this country at least,in artistic beauty and in adaptability to the uses for which it was designed. It. Providence Railroad Station. consists of two distinct but connected parts. The train-house has a length offive hundred and eighty-eight feet and an extreme width of one hundred andthirty feet. The great iron trusses cover five tracks and three platforms. Thehead-house is two hundred and twelve feet long, and one hundred and fifty feetwide at the widest point, the lot on which it stands being very irregular inshape. In the centre of the head-house is a great marble hall, one hundredand eighty feet long, forty-four broad, and eighty high. It is imposing in its BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 47 general effect and magnificent in its arcliitectural beauty an:l its this hall are the waiting and other rooms for the accommodationof passengers, a periodical stand, baggage and package rooms, etc. A restaur-ant of superior character has been recently established in the building. Thepassenger-rooms have immense maps of the territory served by the road andits c
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