Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . r their temporal wants. Services areheld at the chapel ev-eiy Simday, both in the morningand evening : theie is also a weekly prayer-meeting. P^ree Chiuch of St. iMarys, Rev. J. P. Robinson, rec-tor. Sunday service : morning prayer and service atquarter-past ten, ; evening prayer and sermon athali-past seven, ; and an evening prayer and lectureon Fridav evening. Sunday school: two sessions, begin-ning at nine, , and half-past two, The Sundayschool coutituies to enjoy its wonted prosperity, under ex-cellent and otricien
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . r their temporal wants. Services areheld at the chapel ev-eiy Simday, both in the morningand evening : theie is also a weekly prayer-meeting. P^ree Chiuch of St. iMarys, Rev. J. P. Robinson, rec-tor. Sunday service : morning prayer and service atquarter-past ten, ; evening prayer and sermon athali-past seven, ; and an evening prayer and lectureon Fridav evening. Sunday school: two sessions, begin-ning at nine, , and half-past two, The Sundayschool coutituies to enjoy its wonted prosperity, under ex-cellent and otricient teachers. Shipwrecked and destitute seamen have ever foundsympathy and aid in St. Marys. The ladies of the Sail-ois Aid Socieiy have by their efforts enabled the rectorto assist many persons and families. The American Unitarian Association was organizedin 1824, and incorporated in 1847. The rooms of the as-sociation and depository are at No. 26 Chauncy Hon. John G. Palfrey is president. CHAPTER XXI. HORTICULTURAL BUILDING. — GREAT This elegant edifice, the Homestead of the Massachu-setts Hoi-ticnhiiral Society, is h)cated on Tremout Street,between Brouiiiehl Street and Montgomery Phice, nearlyopposite the Tremout Honsc. It is built of Concord 166 BOSTON AND VJCIXITV. 1G7 grauite, with a front of fifty-five feet on Tremont Street,extending on Bromfield Street ninety feet: it is tliveestories high, and is an ornament to that part of the style is tlie Renaissance, a pecnliar style of decorationrevived by Raphael in the pontificate of Leo X., re-sulting from, but freer than, the antique : popular in Eu-rope, and becoming so in this country. The front <a(;adeis separated into three divisions, and is imposing. Thecentre is decorated with an order of coupled columns,repeated in pilasters beliind, and carried through thethree stories ; Doric in the first, Ionic in the second, andCorinthian in the third. The wdiole facade is crownedby a rich composed c
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