A guide-book of Boston for physicians . -Ground at the cor-ner of Tremont and Park streets,—\ Brimstone Corner/ so called bythe unrighteous. It is the best ex-ample remaining in the city of theearly nineteenth century ecclesiasti-cal architecture. It stands on the siteof the town granary, from which thetown agents sold grain to the William Lloyd Garrison gavehis first public address against slav-ery, and Charles Sumner deliveredhis great oration on The War System of Nations. In thischurch America was first sung on July 4, 1832. Opposite the entranceto the Granary Burying-Ground, on t
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . -Ground at the cor-ner of Tremont and Park streets,—\ Brimstone Corner/ so called bythe unrighteous. It is the best ex-ample remaining in the city of theearly nineteenth century ecclesiasti-cal architecture. It stands on the siteof the town granary, from which thetown agents sold grain to the William Lloyd Garrison gavehis first public address against slav-ery, and Charles Sumner deliveredhis great oration on The War System of Nations. In thischurch America was first sung on July 4, 1832. Opposite the entranceto the Granary Burying-Ground, on the corner ofBromfield Street, is thePaddock Office Building,on the site of the old Pad-dock mansion; and look-ing into Hamilton Place,nearly opposite the en-trance to Park StreetChurch, we see the north-erly front of the old MusicHall, built by the Har-vard Musical Associationin 1852, and now a vaude-ville theatre. TheodoreParker preached here, andthis was the home of the L r> . c 1^ r\ U PARK STREET CHURCH Boston Symphony Orcnes-. GUIDE TO BOSTON 23 tra until the new Symphony Hall, at the corner of Massachu-setts and Huntington avenues, was built in 1900. No. 2 Park Street was the house of Dr. John C. Dr. J. Mason Warren was born and died, and the pre-sent Dr. J. Collins Warren began practice. It was occupied fora short time by the historian, John Lothrop Motley. Boston Common was set apart as a place for a training field andfor feeding the cattle in 1634, four years after the settlementof the town. It extended originally from the junction of Beaconand Tremont streets to the waters of the Charles River, whereCharles Street is now. At present it comprises about forty-nineacres, and is bounded by Beacon, Park, Tremont, Boylston andCharles streets, being separated from the Public Garden by thelast-named street. It has been preserved intact by orders ofthe town,and by a clause in the City Charter, forbidding its saleor lease, or the laying out within its precinct
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