Clark's Boston blue book, 1923, Part 64

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Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Boston : Edward E. Clark
Number of Pages: 898


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Shepard St


1688 Dr & Mrs N S Bacon 1692 Mrs Emmons R Ellis Mr E Raymond Ellis 1696 Mr & Mrs Harry E Mason 1702 Mr & Mrs Thos A Dewire Martin St


(P O Cambridge 40)


1712 Dr & Mrs John J Whoriskey 1718 Mrs C H Thomas Dr & Mrs W KS Thomas


1722 Mrs James W Emery Mrs Carrie E Grant


1728 Mr & Mrs Fred H Dow 1734 Mr James J Conley The Misses Conley 1740 Dr & Mrs A W Dudley Linnæan St


1776 Dr & Mrs Leo T Myles 1780 Mr & Mrs Frank E Cheney 1800-1802 COMMONWEALTH CHAMBERS 1826 Mr & Mrs Francis J Carney Miss R Cecile Palmer 0000 THIRD UNIVERSALIST CH (Rev Lucius R Paige) 0000 NORTH AV BAPTIST CH Rev Manford D Wolfe ? 192 Upland Rd $


MEADOW WAY (P O Cambridge 38)


Even numbers 14 Dr & Mrs Edmund J Butler 22 Mr & Mrs Edw B Benedict


Odd numbers


3 Mr & Mrs Wm W Babcock


7 Mr & Mrs Horace E Whitney Mr Allen F Whitney


39 Dr & Mrs William S Whitte- more


MERCER CIRCLE (P O Cambridge 38)


1 Mr & Mrs W Hetherington Turnbull


2 Miss B J Kahnweller


3 Mrs A W Fiske


4 Mr & Mrs Alfred D Hurd Miss Marjorie Hurd Mr John C Hurd


697


CAMBRIDGE


MERCER CIRCLE-Con


5 Prof & Mrs Dugald C Jackson


6 Miss Alice M Morgan


8 Prof & Mrs William F Harris Mr William E Harris


MOUNT AUBURN STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


115 WAVERLY HALL


151 Mrs John Delaney Mr & Mrs Frank Delaney


157 Mr & Mrs Matthew F Durgin 159 Miss Mary E Durgin


173 Mrs Emma Grote Miss Anna E Grote


175 Mr & Mrs Kinsley Dunbar Miss Evelyn Dunbar Miss Mary C Hewett


Even numbers


000 TRINITY HALL


120 THE CRAIGIE


150 Mr Charles C Evans


260 STILLMAN INFIRMARY


000 CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL


360 HOME FOR AGED PEOPLE


000 GERRY'S LANDING Mr & Mrs Edward W Forbes (in Europe for the winter) Mr & Mrs Kenneth G T Webster


380-390 HAVENHURST


380 Mr & Mrs Arthur M Comey


390 Mr Wm A Hayes Miss Susan L Hayes


414 Mrs Mabel L Wicker


426 Mr & Mrs Andrew J Porter


MOUNT VERNON STREET (P O Cambridge 40)


Odd numbers


29 Mr & Mrs Stanley B Hildreth Miss Dorothy E Hildreth


37 Mr & Mrs C Fred Pierce Miss Marguerite Pierce


45 Mrs E A Jameson


47 Mr & Mrs Chester L Dawes


63 Mr & Mrs Chester P Davis Mr & Mrs Howard A Barick- man


Miss Marilla S Barickman


65 Mr & Mrs Herman T Hahn Miss Frances M Hahn Mrs Julia F Cobb


69 Mr & Mrs Frank S Rogers


Even numbers


24 Mr & Mrs Edward C Grant


26 Mrs Herman G Hitchborn Mr & Mrs John D Woodford


36 Mr & Mrs Frank H Ivers Mr & Mrs Robert Baldwin


40 Mr & Mrs George H Dyer Mr & Mrs Leon B Hovey


42 Mr & Mrs Walter S Verity


46 Mrs L E Hitchcock Mr & Mrs Edw H Redstone


48 The Misses Sawyer Miss A S Hildreth


50 Mr & Mrs Enoch Beane Mr Charles H Beane Miss Helen Beane


64 Mr Max Benshimol Mr & Mrs Clifford F Lerned


70 Mrs Clarence J Bodfish . Mrs Louisa L Goodwin


OXFORD STREET


(P O Cambridge 38)


O ,u numbers 15 Mrs Francis C Foster


19 Mr & Mrs William C Lane


00 PIERCE HALL


47 Miss Caroline M Hilton


(P O Station 40)


123 THE HADMOOR


125 Mr & Mrs Arthur D Swezey


141 THE WORTHINGTON


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OXFORD ST-Con


Even numbers


(P O Cambridge 38)


20 Rev & Mrs S M Crothers The Misses Crothers Miss Katharine C Bronson


00 AGASSIZ MUSEUM


66 Mr & Mrs Emil A Erickson 37 Mr Edward L Grueby


(P O Station 40)


124 THE GREENACRE 146-148 THE OXFORD


PHILLIPS PLACE (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


3 Miss Pauline Jones Miss Elizabeth A Jones Miss Dorothy Caldwell Mr & Mrs David D Barnes


5 Mr & Mrs John W Ames Mr John W Ames Jr Mr William Ames


7 Prof & Mrs Frederick Jackson Turner


9 Rev & Mrs William W Love Mr Ethelbert W Love Miss Elizabeth Love


Even numbers


6 Rev & Mrs Norman B Nash Mrs Henry S Nash


12 Rev & Mrs Edward S Drown Mrs Robert D Smith


POTTER PARK (P O Cambridge 38)


1 Dr & Mrs A Carleton Potter


2 The Misses Coleman


3 Mr & Mrs Horace E Hildreth


4 Mr & Mrs John Dore


PRENTISS STREET (P O Cambridge 40)


Odd numbers


29 Mr & Mrs Raymond S Coon Miss Dorothy E Coon Mr Gilbert R Coon


35 Mr & Mrs F W Channing Wood


Mr & Mrs Wm H Grueby Mr Edward L Grueby 2d Mr & Mrs Harry H Bates


Even numbers


10 Mr & Mrs Charles F J McCue


12 Mr & Mrs Reginald F Arra- gon


14 Mr & Mrs Edward K Parker 16 Mr & Mrs Benjamin F Wyeth


PRESCOTT STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


20 Mr & Mrs Willis L Learned Mr & Mrs Arthur B Tyler Miss Helena Thompson Mr & Mrs T J Duncan Fuller Jr


Prof & Mrs George S Forbes Mr & Mrs John H Garretson Mrs Cecile Freese


Mr & Mrs George Gill Jones Dr & Mrs Hugo Mella


Mr & Mrs John Perrin


Mr & Mrs Alfred C Redfield Mr & Mrs Lawrence G Miller Mr & Mrs W H Crook


Mr & Mrs Charles E Tirrell Rev & Mrs Geo H Hubbard Mr & Mrs Henry S Hubbell Mr & Mrs Marmion J Sim- mons


Mr & Mrs John W Pennock


Mr & Mrs Philip T Cate


Mr & Mrs Charles P Stewart Mr & Mrs Thomas W Little


Mrs Ralph Washburn Mrs Edwin L Ross


699


CAMBRIDGE


PROSPECT STREET (P O Cambridge 39)


Odd numbers


000 FIRST EVANGELICAL CON- GREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev Wm H Macnair 177 Hancock St


125 Mrs Robert O Fuller Miss Annie Fuller


175 Mr & Mrs Frank W Cram


191 Miss M A Burrage


87 Mr Charles A Mason


95 Mrs Nathaniel Carr Mr & Mrs William C Holt


121 Rev Ernest M Paddock Mr Alexander M S Paddock Miss Dorothea Paddock


Even numbers


84 Miss Jennie L Hamilton


90 Prof & Mrs Lewis J Johnson Mr Chandler W Johnson


98 Mr & Mrs J B Palmer


199 CAMBRIDGE RELIEF HOSPI- 106 Mr & Mrs Chas H Fosgate TAL


QUINCY STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


11 Prof George H Palmer Rev & Mrs Frederick Palmer


17 President & Mrs A Lawrence Lowell


Even numbers


16 Mr & Mrs Robert C Flack


20 THE COLONIAL CLUB


24 Mrs William G Farlow


26 Prof & Mrs Chester N Green- ough


28 Rev & Mrs Willard L Sperry


32 Prof & Mrs Byron S Hurlbut


38 Mrs John A Dodd The Misses Dodd


40 Prof & Mrs Kirsopp Lake


42 Mr & Mrs Henry Havelock Pierce 00 CHURCH OF THE NEW JERU- SALEM


RAYMOND STREET (P O Cambridge 40)


Odd numbers


29 Mr & Mrs Ernest E Smith


47 Mrs Joseph Y Bergen


79 Dr Edmund H Stevens Miss Luella B Stevens Miss Lena Leach


RESERVOIR STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


1 Mrs Nathaniel C Nash Mr & Mrs Nathaniel C Nash Jr


25 Rev & Mrs Samuel A Eliot Mr Charles W Eliot 2d Mr Theodore L Eliot Dr & Mrs F Fremont-Smith Jr


29 Prof & Mrs Horatio S White 33 Mr & Mrs Joseph H Chad- bourne


Mr Joseph H Chadbourne Jr 43 Mr & Mrs Stephen E Young 47 Mr & Mrs F Hartwell Greene


Even numbers 12 Mr & Mrs Fred'k W Denton Mr Thomas C Denton


RIEDESEL AVENUE (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


5 Mr & Mrs Moses W Ware


7 Mr & Mrs Howard M Turner


9 Prof & Mrs J D M Ford Miss Anita Ford


Even numbers


2 Mr & Mrs H Addington Bruce 4 Mr & Mrs Howard L Blackwell 6 Mr & Mrs Fisher H Nesmith


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SACRAMENTO STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


5 Mr & Mrs John C Dow Mr William H B Lang


9 Mr W G G Cole


11 Mr & Mrs Oscar S Randall Mr & Mrs Walter W Webster


13 Miss Ruth D Loring Mrs James Churchward


19 Mr A L Landerkin


23 Mr & Mrs E J Comerford The Misses Comerford


31 Mr & Mrs J J Brennan


Even numbers


6 Mr & Mrs Wilfred H Smart


8 Mr & Mrs Chas W Gerould


12 Rev & Mrs Kenneth C Mac- Arthur


16 Mr & Mrs A B Shaw The Misses Shaw Mr Edward B Patch


20 Mr & Mrs O G Petterson


22 The Misses Clark


00 AGASSIZ SCHOOL


SCOTT STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


7 Prof & Mrs Roland Thaxter Miss Katharine Thaxter


11 Judge & Mrs Franklin


T Hammond


17 Mrs Walter Wesselhoeft


Even numbers


2 Prof & Mrs Frank W Taussig Miss Catherine Taussig Miss Helen P Taussig


8 Prof & Mrs Wm S Ferguson Miss Elizabeth F Ferguson


12 Prof & Mrs David G Lyon Mrs Philip W Harris


SHADY HILL SQUARE (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


1 Dr & Mrs Edouard Sandoz


3 Mr & Mrs Edgar F Woodman


5 Mr & Mrs Charles H Porter


7 Mr & Mrs Elliot Emerson


9 Mr & Mrs Robert H Mont- gomery


11 Mr & Mrs Grafton L Wilson


Even numbers


2 Prof & Mrs Clarence I Lewis


4 Prof & Mrs Ernest H Schell


6 Mr & Mrs Frederic E Wood Miss Charlotte Wood


8 Mr & Mrs James B Conant


10 Dr & Mrs Ralph C Wiggin


12 Mr & Mrs George H Chase


SHEPARD STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers 11 Mr & Mrs Chas H Lawrence


29 Mr & Mrs Edwin E Waite The Misses Waite


31 Mrs Annie E Shorey


41 GRACE ELIOT HOPKINSON


HALL


51 BERTRAM HALL


57 Mrs Henry M Saville


Even numbers


30 Mr & Mrs William A Lister


34 Mr & Mrs Ernest S Barker


38 Mr & Mrs Arthur W Allen Mr Arthur G Allen


40 Mrs Hylas Sabine


42 Prof & Mrs Irving W Bailey


44 Mr & Mrs William C Greene


48 Mrs Emma B Foulke Mr Howard V Foulke


52 Mrs Huntington Saville Miss Cornelia F Whittier


60 Mr & Mrs Alfred D Sheffield


701


CAMBRIDGE


SPARKS STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


29 Prof & Mrs Arthur N Hol- 49 Mr Herman P French combe


61 Mr & Mrs Fred'k L Allen Miss Amy L Lewis Mrs John Thomas


63 Mr & Mrs Edmund M Parker The Misses Parker


65 Mr & Mrs Edward A Whitney


67 Mr & Mrs George H Carrick Mrs Sidney K Lewis


69 Mr & Mrs Joseph Ballister Russell


75 Mr & Mrs John J Spalding 77 Mr & Mrs Charles Walcott


85 Mrs Charles F Walcott


Even numbers


62 Mr Edward K Newbegin Miss Elizabeth K Newbegin Miss Caroline W King Miss Annie P King


64 Mr & Mrs L Eugene Emerson


66 Mr & Mrs John Noble


70 Mr & Mrs Edward S Dodge


72 Mr & Mrs Frank M Clark


74 Prof & Mrs Wilbur C Abbott Miss Mary Eleanor Abbott


76 Mrs George Dexter Miss Mary D Dexter


80 Mr George C Deane Miss Mary H Deane


86 Mrs Edward C Browne


TRAILL STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


9 Mr & Mrs George H Edgell


11 Rev George Batchelor Mr Chauncy C Batchelor


17 Miss E F Munroe


Even numbers 16 Dr & Mrs Sidney Biddle 18 Mr & Mrs Joseph Lovejoy


TROWBRIDGE STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


51 The Misses Baldwin


53 Mrs J Emmons Turner


55 Mrs Moses King Mr Cloyes King


Even numbers


10 Mrs E Blake Barton


46 Dr Harry L Billings Mrs Harriet E Billings


48 Mr & Mrs Charles H Chase


UPLAND ROAD (P O Cambridge 40)


Odd numbers


31 Mr & Mrs Fred M Allen


43 Mr & Mrs John Hamilton Mr & Mrs Henry E Sears


51 Mr & Mrs Chas F Raymond 63 The Misses Bird


73 Mr & Mrs Arthur W Brigham 79 Mrs Woodford Yerxa


85 Mr & Mrs John H Haley


93 Mr & Mrs Henry E Burton


105 Mr William A Cogan The Misses Cogan


115 Mrs L A Sortwell


127 Mr & Mrs Nathaniel W Gifford


The Misses Gifford Mr George H Gifford


131 Mr & Mrs James F Brine


141 Mr & Mrs Clarence B Smith


145 Mr & Mrs Chas A Gilchrist


149 Mr & Mrs Guy R Merrill Mr George E Merrill


153 Mr & Mrs A J Cunningham Mrs Charles F Leighton


159 Mrs Marshall F Blanchard Mr Arthur F Blanchard


165 Mr & Mrs Fred M Kitfield 167 Mr & Mrs Thomas H San- ders


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I PLAND ROAD-Con


Odd numbers continued 169 Mrs Mildred C Tower Mrs Ellen M Payne


181 Mr & Mrs Frank M Law- rence 189 Mr & Mrs Byron N Merrill Mrs William W Tuttle The Misses Tuttle


Even numbers


14 Dr & Mrs Arthur M Ma- kechnie


62 Mr & Mrs William Ludwig Woodbury


Mrs George M Nash


80 Mr & Mrs C W Parmenter Miss Harriet H Parmenter


100 Mr & Mrs William G Rice


112 Rev & Mrs Lawrence R Howard


114 Mr & Mrs Louis L Conant


116 Mr & Mrs Chas H Morris


140 Rev & Mrs Wm Matthews


146 Mr & Mrs Harvey O Titus


150 Mr William J Usher Mrs J Newton Cole


152 Mr & Mrs Charles M Under- wood


160 Mr & Mrs Walter G Davis


176 Mr Arnold B Cranston Mr & Mrs Arthur C K Hal- lock


Mrs Harriet Beardsell


182 Mr & Mrs Fred'k M French 186 Mr & Mrs Jos W Marksby


188 Mr & Mrs Fred'k R Bunten


192 Rev & Mrs Manford D Wolfe


WALKER STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


71 Mr & Mrs William D Shaw


77 Mr & Mrs Geo E Hennan Miss Cora Hennan


91 Mr & Mrs Edward H Rogers


103 Lieut-Com Irwin D Coyle 107 Prof & Mrs Charles H Grand- gent


Mr Charles H Grandgent Jr


Miss Edith C Grandgent


Mr & Mrs Charles C Gifford Miss Edith S Cushing


113 Prof & Mrs H C G vonJage- mann


117 Miss Caroline A Wolcott Miss Ona A Morse


119 Dr & Mrs E Granville Crab- tree


123 Mrs Lincoln W Riddle


125 Mr & Mrs Hubert V Coryell Even numbers


12 Prof & Mrs Albert A Howard


26 Mr & Mrs Geo M Strout Mr Richard L Strout


30 Mr & Mrs Henry C Jones


64 Mr & Mrs Charles E Gilbert 100 SARAH WHITMAN HALL


118 Miss Sarah E Frothingham Miss Marion C Webster


124 Mr & Mrs George H Holmes Mr George H Holmes Jr


WALNUT AVENUE (P O Cambridge 40)


Odd numbers


3 Mr & Mrs George F Tarbell


5 Mr & Mrs G F Wason


7 Mr & Mrs George B Wason Mr Richard A Wason


9 Mr & Mrs Eugene M Niles


11 Mr & Mrs Herbert O Edger- ton Mrs Gurdon I Edgerton


Even numbers


2 Miss Marion M T Sands


4 Mrs William J Mandell Mr & Mrs Hazard A Dunning


6 Mr Irving H Niles Miss Julia F Burleigh


703


CAMBRIDGE


WARE STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


7 ZETA BETA TAU FRATERNITY


11 Mrs S B Whiting Mr S E Whiting


15 Mr & Mrs Arthur T Hopkins


17 Mrs Granville J Walker Mr Alliston D Walker Miss Alice M Morse


19 THE STANSTEAD Mr John H Hubbard Mr & Mrs George H Hersey Mr & Mrs Frank A Colburn Mr Edwin R Sage Mrs S H Folsom Miss Anna A Folsom Mr & Mrs Joseph O Bullard


23 Mr & Mrs Wm H Simonds


25 Mr & Mrs William F Clapp


Even numbers


12 Mrs William A Bancroft Mr & Mrs Guy Bancroft


WASHINGTON AVENUE (P O Cambridge 40)


Odd numbers


21 Mrs Laura W Brown Mrs Elizabeth G Hutchins


33 Mr John Lyman Porter


49 Mr & Mrs Stillman F Kelley


63 Mr & Mrs George H Bunton Miss L Gertrude Bunton Mr Sumner F Brown


71 Mr Charles G Green Miss Nellie Temple


81 Mr J Walter May


91 Mrs Joseph D Taylor Mr Joseph D Taylor Mrs F B Healy


101 Mrs Joseph D Estabrook Miss Rena Estabrook


107 Mr & Mrs George A Nash


115 Mrs William A Parry Mr W Alden Parry


Even numbers


26 Mr David A Ritchie Miss Marion A Ritchie


58 Prof & Mrs Edw Y Hincks Miss Elizabeth M Hincks


78 Mr & Mrs W H McLean


86 Mrs Rufus P Williams Mr Jeremy A Coulter


88 Mr & Mrs Sanford Mitchell


92 Mr & Mrs George E Johnson


114 Mrs George E Howe


WATERHOUSE STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Odd numbers


1 MATHER COURT Mr & Mrs DeForest Anthony Mr William L Baine Mrs W L Baine


Mr & Mrs George W Bent Miss Caroline E Bill


Mr & Mrs Chas V Blanchard Miss Ida Blanchard Mr & Mrs Alexander T Bowser Mrs C Brainard


Miss Emily P Briggs


Prof & Mrs Harold H Bur- bank Mr & Mrs Clifton B Carberry Mr & Mrs Rufus C Cushman Jr


Mr & Mrs Thomas C Fales Mr & Mrs J M Flinn


Mr & Mrs Jerome C Green Mr & Mrs Murray F Hall Mrs Edward B Hutchinson Mr & Mrs Carlton D Jacobs Mr & Mrs George P Johnson Miss Florence E Johnson Mr & Mrs Norman P Johnson Mr & Mrs Robert H Lee Mr & Mrs Ralph L Page Mr & Mrs David C Proudfoot Mrs David Proudfoot Mrs Mary H Reed


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WATERHOUSE ST-Con Odd numbers continued


MATHER COURT-Con Miss Florence J Saunders Miss Louise M Saunders Mr & Mrs Earl P Schuneman Mrs Frank H Sleeper Miss Ella Sleeper Dr & Mrs Horace P Stevens Mr & Mrs Miles Waumbaugh Mr & Mrs W W Weeden 7 Prof & Mrs John G Hart


9 Mr & Mrs James L Paine Miss Anna W Paine Miss M M Merrill 11 Dr Henry P Wolcott


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WILLARD STREET (P O Cambridge 38)


Even numbers


4 Mr & Mrs Lawrence J Hen- derson


8 Mr & Mrs William W Russell 18 Mr & Mrs Philip G Carleton


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ART, LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATONS


AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 28 Newbury.


ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY ARMORY-See Faneuil Hall. Under caption Places of Interest in Boston.


ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY-9 Park street, near State House. Permanent exhibition of the best modern handicraft by the largest and oldest association of craftsmen in this country. Open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., Saturdays 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. Visitors welcome.


BAKUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY-15 Ashburton place, rm. 315. Open from 9 A. M. to 5 p. M .; Saturday 9 A. M. to 12 M.


BOSTON ATHENEUM-10} Beacon (private library). Open from 8.45 A. M. to 5.30 p. M. and Sunday P. M.


BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY-114 Newbury (founded 1792).


BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY-Copley square. Most important public library in the world. Abbey, Sargent and Puvis deChavannes mural paintings. Bronze entrance doors by French. Statuary by Bela L. Pratt, Frederick Macmonnies, Augustus and Louis Saint-Gaudens. Open from 9 A. M. to 10 p. M. Sundays 12 M. to 10 p. M. Closed at 9 p. M. from June 15 to Sept. 15.


BOSTONIAN SOCIETY-See Old State House. Under caption Places of Inter- est in Boston.


DORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY "YE OLDE BLAKE HOUSE"-Built 1648. Edward Everett square, Dorchester. Tuesdays and Saturdays, 2 to 5 P.M. Free.


FOGG ART MUSEUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY-Harvard College Yard, facing on Broadway, Cambridge. Contains collections of classical antiquities, early Italian paintings, several German and Flemish primitives, engravings, includ- ing the valuable Gray and Randall collections, nineteenth-century English watercolors, a few American paintings, a collection of Japanese prints and other Oriental works of art, and also a large collection of photographs. Open from 9 A. M. to 5 p. M. week days, 1 P. M. to 5 P. M. Sundays and holidays, except July 4 and Christmas.


GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS-162 Newbury street. Permanent exhibition of works of art by Boston painters, sculptors and miniaturists. Open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Free.


MASSACHUSETTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY-1154 Boylston street, on the Fenway. Library open daily. Cabinet of relics on Wednesdays, 2 to 4 P.M. Free.


MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS CADET ARMORY, Arling- ton corner Columbus avenue. Open to the public free from 10 A.M. to 12 M., 1 p. M. to 4 P. M. on week days, Saturdays 10 A. M. to 12 M.


MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS-Huntington avenue and Fenway. Open every day in the year excepting July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Week days 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Nov. 1 to March 1, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Sundays 1 P. M. to 5 P.M. Admission free.


NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY-9 Ashburton place. Li- brary open 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Free.


NEW ENGLAND METHODIST HISTORICAL SOCIETY-Wesleyan Building, 581 Boylston street. Reference library of books. etc., relating to Methodism. Open week days. except Saturdays, 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.


OLD SOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY-see Old South Meeting House under caption Places of Interest in Boston.


TOWN ROOM-3 Joy street. Library and exhibit of the social activities of Massachusetts. Especially to visitors from country towns of the State. Open from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.


ROXBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY-Municipal Bldg, 88 Roxbury Open Wednes- days, 2 to 5 P.M.


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PLACES OF INTEREST IN BOSTON AND ENVIRONS


BLASCHKA GLASS MODELS of plants and flowers. (The Ware Collection.) Central Section of University Museum. Oxford street, Cambridge. Open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. week days, Sundays and holidays 1 P. M. to 5 P. M., except July 4 and Christmas.


BOSTON COMMON-This tract of land, containing nearly fifty acres, was bought in 1634 by Governor Winthrop and others from William Blackstone, who held his title by a right of possession gained prior to the settlement of Boston in 1630, and was set apart for common use as a cow pasture and training field.


BOSTON MASSACRE-The site of the riot between a mob of townspeople and the British guard, March 5, 1770, is in State street, corner of Exchange street, near the Old State House. It is marked by a circle in the stone paving and by a tablet on building on west corner of Exchange street.


BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY-Berkeley corner Boylston. Open to the public free from 9 A. M. to 4.30 P. M. Sundays 1.30 P. M. to 4.30 P. M. Not open on holidays.


"BOSTON TEA PARTY"-Dec. 16, 1773, Griffin's Wharf, Atlantic avenue and Pearl street. Site marked by tablet in wall of building on land side.


BUNKER HILL MONUMENT-Monument square, Charlestown. A granite obelisk, 221 feet high, on Breed's Hill, within the lines of the American redoubt, which was the centre of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Revolutionary relics. Winding stairways of 294 steps to top. 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Admission 10 cents.


CHRIST CHURCH-(Old North Church)-Salem street, foot of Hull street. Dedicated 1723. From its steeple were displayed Paul Revere's signal lanterns, & April 18, 1775. Open free on application to sexton. Guide book, with admission to steeple, 50 cents.


CHRIST CHURCH-Garden street, Cambridge. Built 1759-1761. Here Wash- ington held services New Year's Eve, 1776. Its lead organ pipes were melted into bullets during the siege of Boston, it being Tory property.


CONCORD-Among points of interest are Battle Ground, Old North Bridge, Statue of the Minuteman, Old Monument, Site of Meeting House where First Provincial Congress met in 1774, the Old Manse, Old Burying Grounds. Louisa May Alcott Memorial, Historic Houses and Tablets.


DORCHESTER HEIGHTS-G street, South Boston. Monument marks spot where Washington planted batteries which drove the British out of Boston, March 17, 1776.


FANEUIL HALL-Merchants row and Faneuil Hall square. "Cradle of Lib- erty." Built 1742, by Peter Faneuil and given to Boston as a town hall. Burned 1761, rebuilt 1763. Focus of Revolutionary movement in Boston and the colo- nies. Used by British officers as a playhouse during siege of Boston. Enlarged 1805, from Charles Bulfinch's plans. Market below, public hall above, and armory of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (chartered 1638) over all. Hall has many historic paintings and portraits. Armory has Military Mu- seum and Library. Hall open week days 9 to 5, Saturdays, 9 to 12. Armory, week days, 10 to 4; Saturdays, 10 to 12. Free.


FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON-Corner of Berkeley and Marlboro streets. So- ciety formed 1630. Contains tablets and statues of Winthrop, Cotton, Dudley, Johnson and many of the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony, together with various memorials to people of more recent prominence in the Commonwealth. Open daily from 9 to 5.


FIRST CHURCH IN ROXBURY-Eliot square. Open through the summer, free to visitors, from 1 to 3 P. M. The church of the Apostle Eliot, whose chair is on exhibition. A number of tablets have been placed in memory of the earliest and after worshippers.


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HARVARD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM-Oxford street, Cambridge. Contains collec- tions pertaining to ethnology (Peabody Museum) ; zoology and geology (Museum of Comparative Zoology); mineralogy and botany (Agassiz Hall). Open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. week days; 1 p. M. to 5 P. M. Sundays and holidays, except July 4 and Christmas.


KING'S CHAPEL-Tremont and School streets. First chapel built in 1686, present one in 1749. Old English architecture. First Episcopal church in Boston. Here British officers worshipped during siege. Became first Unitarian church in United States, 1785. Open daily, 9 to 12.


LEXINGTON-Among points of interest are The Common, Boulder Line of the Minute Men, Battle and Minute Man monuments, Historic Houses and Tablets.


LONGFELLOW HOUSE-105 Brattle street, Cambridge. Built in 1759 by Col- onel John Vassall, Jr., a Tory, who fled at commencement of Revolution. Oc- cupied by Washington as headquarters from July 15, 1775, to April, 1776. Subsequently bought by Andrew Craigie, from whose estate Longfellow acquired it by purchase about 1843. Generally called Craigie House.


LOWELL HOUSE-Elmwood avenue, Cambridge. Built about 1760. Once the home of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Vice President 1813-14. Used as a hospital after Bunker Hill. James Russell Lowell born here Feb. 22, 1819, and it was long his home.


NAVY YARD-Chelsea street, Charlestown. Dating from 1780, 110 acres. Frigate Constitution, (Old Ironsides). Open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Passes may be obtained from the office of the Captain of the yard.


OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE-Washington and Milk streets. Society formed 1669. Present house built 1729. Here the men of the town gathered to protest against forcing Massachusetts citizens into the British navy, to demand with- drawal of British troops, and to decide the fate of the hated tea. Used by the British as a riding school during the siege of Boston. Large collection of historic relics. Open week days except Saturdays, 9 to 5; Saturdays 9 to 4. Admission 25 cents.


OLD STATE HOUSE-Washington street, head of State street. Here the first Town House was built, 1657, in the earliest marketplace of Boston. Burned in 1711, it was rebuilt in 1712. Again burned in 1747, the present structure was , built in 1748. the walls of the former building being utilized. Here met Colonial courts and legislatures, the town and city governments and the General Court of the Commonwealth. John Hancock was here inaugurated first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1780. Building restored in 1882. Bos- tonian Society collection of relics. May 1 to Nov. 1, 9 to 4.30. Nov. 1 to May 1, 9 to 4. Saturdays (June 1 to Oct. 1) 9 to 1. Free.


PARK STREET CHURCH-Corner Park and Tremont streets. Erected in 1810 on site of the granary where sails of the United States frigate Constitution were made. "America" was first sung in this church.


PAUL REVERE HOUSE-19 and 21 North square. Built 1660. Restored 1908. Home of Paul Revere, 1770-1800. Open week days 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Fee, 25 cts.


STATE HOUSE-Beacon, head of Park street. Hill on which State House stands was originally called Trimount, later changed to Sentry Hill when used as a lookout and after the erection of the Beacon in 1635 received the name of Beacon Hill. Corner-stone of Bulfinch front laid July 4, 1795. Statuary, historic paint- ings, battle-flags, war relics. House of Representatives contains celebrated Cod- fish emblem. Gilded dome, lighted at night by 498 electric lights. 9 to 5. Satur- days, 9 to 12. Free.


WASHINGTON ELM-Garden street. Cambridge. Under this tree Washington took command of the American Army, July 3, 1775.


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BOSTON BLUE BOOK 1923


U. S. NAVY YARD, CHARLESTOWN




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