Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . «l-\^ ;-. >-^* -- HOSION OF TO-rJAY. n detail within became reflected without. Then thelate H. H. Richardsons work, with its round archedGothic, left its strong impress on the work ofothers. From his hand came Bishop PhillipsBrooks house on Clarendon street, and Henry house on Commonwealth avenue. Insomewhat similar style were the houses of CharlesWhittier, and many more on Beacon street andCommonwealth avenue, with a pleasing tend
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . «l-\^ ;-. >-^* -- HOSION OF TO-rJAY. n detail within became reflected without. Then thelate H. H. Richardsons work, with its round archedGothic, left its strong impress on the work ofothers. From his hand came Bishop PhillipsBrooks house on Clarendon street, and Henry house on Commonwealth avenue. Insomewhat similar style were the houses of CharlesWhittier, and many more on Beacon street andCommonwealth avenue, with a pleasing tendency toFrench work, as seen in the two houses designedtogether for Drs. Wesselhoeft and Bell on Common-wealth avenue. The latest movement has been ina return to the classic in motive, and much dignityhas resulted, as in the examples owned by Skinner, Charles Head, and others, onBeacon street. While in similar lines, but withmuch more feeling for the stately houses which werebuUt for the merchants of the early part of thecentury, here as well as in Salem and Portsmouth,may be named the houses of Arthur Beebe, JohnForrester Andrew, on Commonw
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