Boston illustrated; . y Belknap, Channing, and Gannett. At the corner of Federal andMilk streets once stood the stately house from wliicli Governor Shirley wasbuiied, in 1771, and which was afterwards the home of the able and wittyRobert Treat Paine, father and son. One of the most extensive business blocks in the burned-over district is thaterected by the lateGardner Brewer,Esq., on Devon-shire, Franklin,and Federalstreets. It is ofNova Scotia free-stone, and is ingeneral highly sat-isfactory from anarchitectural pointof view, thoughnot so rich in or-namentation a sothers. Among theother larg
Boston illustrated; . y Belknap, Channing, and Gannett. At the corner of Federal andMilk streets once stood the stately house from wliicli Governor Shirley wasbuiied, in 1771, and which was afterwards the home of the able and wittyRobert Treat Paine, father and son. One of the most extensive business blocks in the burned-over district is thaterected by the lateGardner Brewer,Esq., on Devon-shire, Franklin,and Federalstreets. It is ofNova Scotia free-stone, and is ingeneral highly sat-isfactory from anarchitectural pointof view, thoughnot so rich in or-namentation a sothers. Among theother large build-ings whereof thearchitecture or thematerial areworthy the atten-tion of strangeisare all of those inWintlirop Square,whicli are almostunifoiinly rich indesign and hand-some in for ni ;two fine buildingserected by theSears estate, one at the corner of The Brewer Building. Summer and Chauncy streets, and the other at the corner of Franklin andDevonshire ; the store at the southern corner of Washington and Summer. 100 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. streets ; the Lee Block, at the corner of Siiinmer and Lincoln streets ; severalmassive stone buildings on Bedford Street, and that in wliich the Shoe andLeather Exchange is located ; and others which a tour of tlie streets will bringto ones notice. Within the limits of this district are, as we have said, all the daily newspa-per offices, and many of those of the weeklies. The section of A^^ashing?tonStreet, between State, and just south of Milk Street has come of late years tobe called Newspaper Row. The office of the Transcript, the oldest of the evening newsi)apers, and next to the Advertiserthe oldest daily inthe city, is the far-thest south. It isa literary paper,and noted for tlieexcellence of itsimseellaneous read-ing matter. It hasbeen long the fa-vorite afternoonpaper of Bostonand vicinity, andits present quartoliuin is in markedI ontrast to its di-imuutive begin-ning. The Tran-script was firstpuV)lished in July,1830, and until th
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