. Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ... c buildings of Medford are the Old Garrison,or Jonathan Wade house, a brick building just off the Squarethat is supposed to date from about 1683; and the so-calledCraddock Fort on Riverside Ave. For many years the latterwas claimed as the original Craddock Hotise, built in is now disputed, but it is a most interesting oldstructure, and must have been built long before 1700. TheMystic River running through Medford offers excellent boating,and on its banks are laid out boulevards of the MetropolitanP
. Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ... c buildings of Medford are the Old Garrison,or Jonathan Wade house, a brick building just off the Squarethat is supposed to date from about 1683; and the so-calledCraddock Fort on Riverside Ave. For many years the latterwas claimed as the original Craddock Hotise, built in is now disputed, but it is a most interesting oldstructure, and must have been built long before 1700. TheMystic River running through Medford offers excellent boating,and on its banks are laid out boulevards of the MetropolitanPark System. On College Hill are the buildings of Tufts andJackson colleges. Forest St. is the Medford entrance toMiddlesex Fells. Winchester, a town of beautiful drives and most attractivehomes, lies beyond Medford, around Mystic Lakes. Everett, Maiden and Chelsea, north of Boston, with100,000 people, lie within a six-mile radius of its cityhall. At Chelsea are the United States Naval Hospital, justover the bridge, and the Massachusetts Soldiers Home on RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 99. Oak Knoll—DanversPage 107 Powder Horn are also two veryinteresting old houses,the Pratt House, justoff Washington Ave.,(Woodlawn car) whereIncrease Mather foundescape from the wrathof Governor Andros in1688; and the GaryHouse on Parker St.,built 1659 and once thehome of Governor Bell-ingham; it is now preserved by the Gary House Association. Revere and Winthrop on the east are well-known seashoretowns. At Winthrop there is stilj standing the old home ofDeane Winthrop, son of the governor. It was built about 1640and is well cared for by the Winthrop Improvement Society. Newton. To the west of Brighton and Brookline, reachedby Elevated cars, the Boston & Worcester Street Railway, andat a dozen stations bythe Boston & AlbanyRailroad. One of themost beautiful rides isfrom Lake St., theterminus of the Eleva-ted on Newton Boule-vard, by cars of theMiddlesex & BostonStreet Railway Gom-pany, th
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