Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . CHAPTER V. BOSTON — ^•3// The majniifioont ])uiltlinji for tlio use of the M is sitiKitcd on licm-oii Street, near tlic SlateHouse. It is of Iatieisoii freestone, and in tlie BOSTON AND VICINITY, 41 Style of architecture. It is one hundred and fourteen feetni length, of irregular breadth, sixty feet in iieight, andstands ten feet back from the street, tlie ground space inifont being surrounded by a balustrade with stone main entrance opens into a panelled and decoratedrotund
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . CHAPTER V. BOSTON — ^•3// The majniifioont ])uiltlinji for tlio use of the M is sitiKitcd on licm-oii Street, near tlic SlateHouse. It is of Iatieisoii freestone, and in tlie BOSTON AND VICINITY, 41 Style of architecture. It is one hundred and fourteen feetni length, of irregular breadth, sixty feet in iieight, andstands ten feet back from the street, tlie ground space inifont being surrounded by a balustrade with stone main entrance opens into a panelled and decoratedrotunda, from wliich fine iron staircases conduct above. The ScLLiTiKE GALLiiKY is in the first story, and iseiglity feet in length. Its entrance is immediately oppo-site tlie front door. Here is to be found a line collectionof works of art in maible, and casts in plaster. Amongthem are the following in marble: Orpheus enteringthe realms of Pluto in scuirch of Enrydice, by T. ; Ilcbe and Ganymede, by the same sculptor;bust of Daniel Webster, l)y Powers ; bust of Allston, byClevenger ; group
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