Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . htwo broad nights of steps lead to the principal story, land-ing in two smaller vestibules therein, lighted by skylightsin the roof; and these vestibules communicate with all theapartments in this story. The several rooms are for thecollector, assistant collector, naval officer, surveyor, publicstorekeeper, their deputies and clerks. The grand cross-shaped rotunda, for the general business of the collectorsdepartment, in the centre of this story, is finished in theGrecian Corinthian order. It is sixty-three feet in itsgreatest length,
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . htwo broad nights of steps lead to the principal story, land-ing in two smaller vestibules therein, lighted by skylightsin the roof; and these vestibules communicate with all theapartments in this story. The several rooms are for thecollector, assistant collector, naval officer, surveyor, publicstorekeeper, their deputies and clerks. The grand cross-shaped rotunda, for the general business of the collectorsdepartment, in the centre of this story, is finished in theGrecian Corinthian order. It is sixty-three feet in itsgreatest length, fifty-nine feet wide, and sixty-two feethigh to the skylight. The ceiling is supported by twelve columns of mar-ble, three feet in diameter and twenty-nine feet in height, 16 BOSTON SIGHTS. with highly-wrought capitals; the ceiling is ornamentedin a neat and chaste manner, and the skylight is filledwith stained glass. The building was commenced in 1837, and entirelycompleted in 1849. It has cost about $1,076,000, includ-ing the site, foundations, & Passing up State Street, we soon reach The is a splendid building, fronting on State Street. Thecorner stone was laid August 2, 1841; the building com-pleted 1842, and cost, exclusive of land, $175,000. Thewidth on State Street is seventy-six feet, the height seventy THE 17 feet, the depth two hundred and fifty feet, and it coversthirteen thousand feet of land. The front is of Quincy granite, and has six columns,each forty-five feet in height, and weighing fifty-five staircases are of iron and stone, and the entire build-ing is fire-proof. The front is occupied by banks, insur-ance and other ofiices, and the rear is a hotel, while at thetop is a telegraph station. There are three entrances,one on State, one on Congress, and one on Lindall Street.
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