Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . or its own. Many of the beautiful oldhomes are now given up to club and boarding-houses, the fam-ilies who once occupied them having moved to the Back Bay orthe suburbs, though some still keep their homes on the hill. Butthe old places will live in song and stf^ry for coming genera-tions. Many of Americas great writers, living in the neighbor-hood, so loved the quaint old houses and picturesque streets thatthey have filled them with their characters, some of them his-toric, and given them lasting fame. OLD BOSTON. 91 Beacon Street from Park to
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . or its own. Many of the beautiful oldhomes are now given up to club and boarding-houses, the fam-ilies who once occupied them having moved to the Back Bay orthe suburbs, though some still keep their homes on the hill. Butthe old places will live in song and stf^ry for coming genera-tions. Many of Americas great writers, living in the neighbor-hood, so loved the quaint old houses and picturesque streets thatthey have filled them with their characters, some of them his-toric, and given them lasting fame. OLD BOSTON. 91 Beacon Street from Park to Tremont is no longer a residencestreet. East of the State House may be seen the AmericanUnitarian Association Building, a brownstone structure, andnext to it the new and handsome Bellevue Hotel. Opposite isthe building of the Boston Atheneum at lo^j Beacon north on Somerset Street is Jacob Sleeper Hall, containingthe office and several departments of Boston University, whichalso has a School of Law on Ashburton Place, near by. It has. SUFFOLK COUNTY COURT HOUSE,Pemberton Square. a School of Theology on Mount \>rnon Street, a School ofMedicine on East Concord Street, and Colleges of ^lusic andAgriculture at Amherst, Mass. On the right of Somerset Streetwe enter the rear of the Court House, which faces on PembertonSquare. It was erected in 1887-94, at a cost of nearly $4,000, the beautiful corridor may be seen Frenchs statue of RufusChoate. Passing out into Pemberton Square, formerly a quarterof fashionable homes, now chiefly occupied by lawyers offices, 92 GUIDE TO BOSTON. we continue to Scollay Square, named for one William Scolla}^who a century ago owned much of the property in this neighbor-hood. Beacon Street from the State House to Charles Street is stilla fashionable quarter. At No. 25 Beacon Street was the Bow-doin mansion, where General Burgoyne was quartered. Stand-ing in front of No. 29, we try to picture in place of the modernbrownstone house, th
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