Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . he large experience, in that department, ofDr. Morrill Wyman, of Cambridge. Mr. Alpheus , a native of Boston, (a partner of Mr. Snell,) hasalso assisted in the arrangement of the decorations of theinterior. The entrances are from Winter Street, Bumstead Place,and Bromfield Street. Ample accommodations are afford-ed for drawing rooms, alcoves, offices, &c. Masonic Temple. — This building is situated in Tre-mont Street, on part of the land that was formerly Wash-ington Gardens. The corner stone was laid October 11,1830, with appro
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . he large experience, in that department, ofDr. Morrill Wyman, of Cambridge. Mr. Alpheus , a native of Boston, (a partner of Mr. Snell,) hasalso assisted in the arrangement of the decorations of theinterior. The entrances are from Winter Street, Bumstead Place,and Bromfield Street. Ample accommodations are afford-ed for drawing rooms, alcoves, offices, &c. Masonic Temple. — This building is situated in Tre-mont Street, on part of the land that was formerly Wash-ington Gardens. The corner stone was laid October 11,1830, with appropriate Masonic ceremonies, by the GrandLodge of Massachusetts. This Temple was dedicated May MASONIC TEMPLE. 57 30, 1832. It is sixty feet wide, and eighty and a halffeet long, and fronts westwardly on Tremont Street. Thewalls are fifty-two feet high, of stone, covered with a slatedroof, twenty-four feet high, containing sixteen windows tolight the attic story. The gutters are of cast iron, andthe water trunks are of copper. The basement is of fine. hammered granite, twelve feet high, with a belt of thesame. The towers at the corners next Tremont Streetare sixteen feet square, surmounted with granite battle-ments, and pinnacles rising ninety-five feet from theground. The door and window frames are of fine ham- 58 BOSTON SIGHTS. mered granite, and the main walls, from the basement tothe roof, are of Quincy granite, disposed in courses, insuch a manner as to present a finished appearance to theeye. The blocks are triangular in shape, and there isprobably no other such building in Massachusetts. From the street are two flights of winding stairs inthe towers, sufficiently spacious to admit a free entranceto the five stories of the building. The first story isoccupied for miscellaneous purposes; the second by thespacious salesrooms of Messrs. Chickering & Sons; andthe third, fourth, and fifth stories for Masonic different Lodges meet as follows : -— St. Johns Lodge,
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