Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . 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, S17<j,0()0. Thewidth on State Street is seventy-six feet, the height seventj l.(»sr()N AND VI( INITY. 15 feet, the depth two hundred and fifty feet, and it coversthirteen thousand feet of land. The front is of Quincy granite, and has six column?,each forty-five feet in height, and weighing fifty-five staircases are of iron
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . 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, S17<j,0()0. Thewidth on State Street is seventy-six feet, the height seventj l.(»sr()N AND VI( INITY. 15 feet, the depth two hundred and fifty feet, and it coversthirteen thousand feet of land. The front is of Quincy granite, and has six column?,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 offices, and the rear is a hotel, while at is a telegraph station. Tiic^re are three entrances,one on JState, one on Congress, and one on Liudall The Merchants Exchange is up stairs, and is amagnificent hall, eghty feet by fifty-eight feet, having its 16 DOST6N AXlt VICIMTV. ceiling supported l)v eiirhtcen imitation Sienna marblecolumns, with Corinthian cai) Tliere is a granddome overhead, filled with stained ghiss. Here news-papers from all parts of the world are reeeived, read, andfiled. A superintendent, registrar, news collector, boat-men, messengeis, &c., are attached to the room, and arein attendance from seven oclock in the morning until tenat night. Vessels arriving are immediately registered, aswell as shipping news telegraphed from distant , invoices per iaiho;vd, ships, &c., are all en-tered, with the name of the consignee, on books kept forthe pur]ioso. Sales of stocks, cotton, &c., are also regis-tered. ^Merchants, singly, are admitted to all the privi-leges of the room for eight dollars a year; firms of twopersons, ten dollars, &c. These are called subscribers,and have the pr
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