Boston illustrated; . Building of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. is admirably constlueted. A fine marble staircase runs from the first to thesixth story. The building is furnished with numerous vaults and safes, thebasement alone having no less than ten safes for the accommodation of the Bos-ton Safe Deposit Company. The New England Mutual Life occupies the sec-ond story of its building. The Cathedral Building is a handsome iion structure on Winthrop Square,occupying the site of the ancient Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the scene ofthe labors of Bishop Cheverus, who was afterwar
Boston illustrated; . Building of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. is admirably constlueted. A fine marble staircase runs from the first to thesixth story. The building is furnished with numerous vaults and safes, thebasement alone having no less than ten safes for the accommodation of the Bos-ton Safe Deposit Company. The New England Mutual Life occupies the sec-ond story of its building. The Cathedral Building is a handsome iion structure on Winthrop Square,occupying the site of the ancient Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the scene ofthe labors of Bishop Cheverus, who was afterwards Cardinal-Archbishop of BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 97. The Cathedral Building. Bordeaux. It was a part of the estate of the late Isaac Rich, and its rev-enues formed a portion of the endowment of Boston University, until it passedto the University to wliich it now belongs. At the south end of Winthrop Square is the Beebe-Weld Building, a largeand imposing granite structure. The Equitable Building is a lofty and massive structure on Devonshire, cor-ner of Milk streets, opposite the Milk Street end of the Post-Office, and asnear as possible to the centre of commercial Boston. It is owned by the Equit-able Life Assurance Society, and was built in 1873, at a cost of .fSl,100, walls are of Quincy and Hallowell granite, with ponderous brick back-ing, the floors being of impervious artificial stone on brick arches, the partitionsof brick and the roof of iron and slate. There are nine stories above the base-ment, which are reached by three elevators and broad stairways of basements are occupied by the massive fire and burglar-pr
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