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APRIL 18-19, 1775
@ Robert M Winn : Wall aston
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Christ Church 1723-"The Old North Church of Paul Revere Fame"
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This church, designed after the manner of Sir Christopher Wren, the oldest church edifice in Boston, is a substantial hand-made brick struc- ture about seventy feet long, fifty-one feet wide and forty-two feet high. Its walls are two and one-half feet thick. The walls of the twenty-four foot square, eighty-five foot high tower are three and one-half feet thick. The steeple is 175 feet high in all. 513,654 bricks were used in building the church. Thomas Tippin and Thomas Bennett were the Master Builders.
Organized when the original King's Chapel proved inadequate for the many who desired to worship in The Church of England, alterations were made in the Liturgy (about 1779) to meet the change from Colony to Nation. "The Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere, displayed from the steeple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of British troops to Lexington and Concord."
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Paul Revere first came to "OLD NORTH" at the age of fifteen and assisted in organizing a Guild to ring the bells. This peal of eight bells which was cast in Glouces- ter, England, in 1744, "the first ring of bells cast for the British Empire in North America," is now played before a Sunday Morning service. The lar- gest bell weighs 1,545 pounds,the smallest 620 and the weight of all bells totals 7,272 pounds.
Pew 54, owned by Paul Revere's
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Interior of the Christ Church
Interior of Christ Church showing the Organ, 1759; the Cherubim, 1746; the Brass Chandeliers, 1724; and the Avery-Bennett Clock, 1726.
oldest son, was probably occupied at times by Paul Revere.
The clock in front of the gallery was made by Richard Avery in 1726 and the case was made by Thomas Bennett, proprie- tor of pew No. 56. It is still a good timekeeper. Captain Cyprian Southack, a maker of Coast Charts "Employed much at Sea," gave a belfry clock before 1735, although it was not put in place until 1749.
The "Vinegar Bible" and Prayer Book (both printed in 1717) and a beautiful communion Ser- vice two flagons, chalice, paten and alms basin, were a gift to the church by King George II in 1733. September 13, 1757, it s recorded that John
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VINEGAR BIBLE AND PRAYER BOOK PRESENTED TO CHRIST CHURCH "OLD NORTH "
BY KING GEORGE TI IN 1733
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MA' JOHN PITCAIRN
JOSEPH WIELWRIGHT
HUE LIES & BODY OF M* ELIZABETH VEEKES. WIFE TO M' SAMUEL WEEKES LATE OF § CITY OF EXON IN GREAT BRITAN MED 26 YEAR* 7 Mº & 13 - DAY' WHO DECR AT SEA NOV Y 4"& WAS BURIED WY 10 17 2 1
Childs, who had given Public Notice of his in- tention, flew from the steeple of "Old North" and the following day made two fights, ". . . The last time he set off with two Pistols loaded, one of which he dis- charged in his Descent, the other missing fire, he cocked and snap't it again before he reach- ed the place prepared to receive him."
It is noted in the same article that as his ". .. Performance led many People from their Business, he is forbid flying any more in the town."
In the years between 1724 and 1730 at least twenty pews were own- ed by the sea Captains.
The Rev. Charles Wesley preached and assisted Rev. Dr. Cut- ler at Communion in Sept .- Oct., 1736.
Gen. Thomas Gage, Governor of Massachu- setts Bay Colony, occu- pied pew 62, and is said to have witnessed the Battle of Bunker THE PITCAIRN TOMB Hill from the Steeple. President James Munroe received Communion from Rev. Asa Eaton at the Chancel Rail on July 6, 1817.
It is said more than one thousand persons have been buried in the thirty-seven ancient tombs under the church including the first Rector, Rev. Timothy Cutler, D. D., Maj. John Pitcairn (British), and Commo- dore Samuel Nicholson, first commander of U. S. Frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides."
Theodore Roosevelt occupied pew 25 on December 29, 1912, and Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke in the church on April 11, 1920.
The generous offerings from those who worship at "Old North"
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from all over the world, and receipts from the sale of maps, cards, books and pictures to visitors help maintain the property. Your gift will aid in keeping the doors of this historic shrine open to welcome those who come after you. You will be interested in the Chancel and the Communion Table. The Commandments were painted by John Gibbs in 1736; the Creed and Lord's Prayer about 1815. The "Last Supper," painted by John Ritto Penni- man, was given to the church in 1812.
The brass chandeliers, the gift of Capt. William Maxwell, were first light- ed on Christmas Day 1724: the box pews are the highest in the country.
The central case of the organ dates from about 1759. The four Cherubim in front of the organ were taken from a French ship which was transporting them to a Canadian church in 1746.
Of much interest to visitors are the reproduction of one of the two "lan- thorns" displayed at Revere's orders, the Bay Pew for "The Gentlemen of the Bay of Honduras," and early rec- ords of the Sunday School established in 1815, "one of the first Sunday- schools in this part of the world."
To the north of the church once stood the Salem St. Academy, a much smaller building than the present Par- ish House. The church was part-owner of the Academy, and on June 4, 1815 organized one of the first Sunday- schools in this part of the world, if we except Samuel Slater's private Sun- day-school at Pawtucket, established in 1799, and one of two "charity schools" formed in 1810 and 1812. It had 365 scholars in attendance on its first Sun- day, with John R. Cotting as superin- tendent. A roll of the scholars, written in 1817, with its quaint names of streets, lanes, and alleys at the North End, now hangs in the vestry. From this we learn that Hannah Brown lived in Love Lane, Rachell Newell in Methodist Al- ley, Sarah Ingraham in Sun Court St., Joseph Page in White Bread Alley,
A SIGNAL LANTERN OF PAUL REVERE
Bought in 1782 by Captain Daniel Brown of Concord, from the sexton of Christ Church in Boston, and affirmed by the said sexton at that time to have been one of the two lanterns displayed from the belfry of that church by order of Paul Revere on the evening of April 18, 1775.
From Captain Brown's grand- son it came into the possession of Mr. Cummings E. Davis in 1853 with the legend as here given. Now displayed at the Concord Antiquarian House, Concord, Massachusetts.
Note the tooled edges: its pierced two-storied chimney: the turned finials on the four corner posts: the remaining vestiges of lacquer.
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Nancy Jones and Peter Mash in Fish Street, and Elizabeth Vaughan in Dagget's Alley.
A cordial invitation is extended to all to participate in the Sunday morning service at Christ Church-"The OLD NORTH CHURCH of Paul Revere Fame" (Protestant Episcopal) on Salem St., at 10:45 o'clock. The Bishop of Massachusetts is the Rector and Rev. Charles Russell Peck is the Vicar. When you worship at divine service in this, the oldest church edifice in Boston, you are privileged to take part in the beautiful yet simple service which has been read practically without interruption since the last Sunday in December, 1723, except for a period during the Revolution when the church was closed "by military necessity."
BUST OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Standing in a niche made by the window through which sexton Robert Newman escaped after displaying the lanterns as directed by Paul Revere.
This monument, the first memorial to Washington erected in a public place in New England, the second in the country, was probably
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modeled from a plaster bust known to have been made by Christian Gulli- ger of Boston in 1790. It was carried in a procession through the streets when the funeral observances were conducted in Oxford, Mass. (1800) When General Lafayette visited the church in 1824 he was asked by Reverend Father Brinley if it was a good likeness of General Washing- ton. Pointing to the bust Lafayette replied, "YES, THAT IS THE MAN I KNEW, AND MORE LIKE HIM THAN ANY OTHER PORTRAIT."
"OLD NORTH" IS OPEN EVERY DAY TO VISITORS
Avery-Bennett Clock
Said to be oldest clock in the country in a public building.
54 THE "REVERE PEW" Owned (1808) by Paul Revere's oldest son Sometimes Occupied by Paul Revere. Note Lanterns and Old Foot Warmer.
IN CHRIST CHURCH, BOSTON
DIRECTIONS TO NEXT HISTORIC SPOT OF INTEREST
Up Hull Street directly in front of the "OLD NORTH CHURCH" to "COPP'S HILL BURIAL GROUND." You have now covered 1 and 1/5 miles.
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Copp's Hill Burial Ground
It was most suitable that Copp's Hill in the North End of Boston be used in part as a burial ground. In those early days (1659) the well- to-do of Boston dwelt largely in that convenient and beautiful part of the peninsular. Copp's Hill was lower than Beacon and Fort Hill, but the first windmill erected in the colony stood on its summit. The name honors William Copp who dwelt nearby, and who is interred here. This, the second burial ground in Boston, is the largest in the historic city proper.
There are over 225 tombs within this burial ground, the oldest built in 1717. The date of the first interment is unknown, probably about the year 1660.
In one tomb are buried, "THE REVEREND DOCTORS IN- CREASE, COTTON and SAMUEL MATHER." ROBERT NEWMAN, Sexton of Christ Church, "The Old North Church of Paul Revere Fame" who displayed the two "lanthorns" at Revere's order and the Patriot DANIEL MALCOLM "who desired that he be buried ten feet deep, safe from British Musket Balls" are buried in this old ground. Six years after Daniel Malcolm's burial British Soldiers used his tombstone for a target-the bullet marks are conspicuous even now.
A British battery of six heavy guns and howitzers was placed on this hill, and from here Generals Clinton and Burgoyne witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill and directed the fire of the battery. It is said that a shell from one of these guns started the conflagration in Charlestown.
DIRECTIONS TO NEXT HISTORIC SPOT OF INTEREST
Continue down hill on Hull Street to end of street, turn left and cross first bridge on your right to Charlestown-U. S. FRIGATE CONSTITUTION "OLD IRONSIDES," "THE BOSTON NAVY YARD" and "BUNKER HILL MONU- MENT." You can see them from the bridge and you'll find them.
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U. S. Frigate Constitution
"OLD IRONSIDES"
Across the stream from Constitution Wharf in Boston, near the lo- cation of Hartt's Shipyard, from which she was launched October 21, 1797, U. S. Frigate CONSTITUTION-"Old Ironsides"-lies in dock at the Navy Yard. No ship deserves more justly a place in the affections of a country than this protector of our Nation during one of the most critical periods of our history.
Designed by Joshua Humphreys of Philadelphia, Colonel George Claghorn was in entire charge of construction through three years. The cost was $302,917.
The over-all length was 204 feet. The beam 43 feet 6 inches; dis- placement 2250 tons. The crew numbered 475 men and officers (1812). The maximum logged speed was 13.5 knots.
The live oak, red cedar, white oak, pitch pine and locust, of which she was constructed, came from states ranging from Maine to South Caro-
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lina and Georgia. The heavier part of the original battery came from Maryland and Connecticut. The copper bolts and fittings were made by Paul Revere. (About 15% of the original timbers remain in the ship.)
Designed a 44-gun frigate, the Constitution carried 52 guns during most of the war of 1812, though this number was sometimes exceeded. Her first Commander, Captain Samuel Nicholson, is buried in a tomb under Christ Church, "The Old North Church of Paul Revere Fame," in Boston.
In 1798 the CONSTITUTION helped clear our coast line and the West Indies of French Privateers; in 1803-1805 bombarded the forts at Tripoli, and dictated peace without tribute to the Barbary States. During the war of 1812 she won a succession of victories over the British fleet, sinking the frigates Guerriere and Java in two engagements, and capturing the corvette Cyane and the sloop Levante after a hard fought battle.
Condemned to be broken up in 1830, this undefeated champion was saved by Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose poem "Old Ironsides" arous- ed such popular feeling that money was appropriated for rebuilding in 1833.
In honoring "Old Ironsides" we honor not only the ship itself but the men who by their bravery and skill brought her to such renown and made such glorious history for America.
"OLD IRONSIDES" IS OPEN TO VISITORS
THE UNITED STATES NAVY YARD in Charlestown was established on "Moulton's Point" in 1800.
The first dry dock in the country, built in 1833 by Josiah Quincy, second mayor of Boston, is still in use in the Navy Yard. The rope-walk manufactures rope for the entire navy.
BELL No. 8 OF THE EIGHT BELLS OF "OLD NORTH CHURCH" First Rung November 8, 1745 Cast by Able Rudhall
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From a rare engraving
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT
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Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill Monument stands on Breed's Hill, Charlestown, where the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought June 17, 1775. In the main path leading to the Monument stands a bronze statue of Colonel William Pres- cott representing the American commander restraining his impatient men with his famous command "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes," as the enemy advanced up the hill.
Bunker Hill Monument is the second memorial erected on this ground: the first a Tuscan pillar of wood eighteen feet high erected in honor of "Major-General Joseph Warren and his associates" by King Solomon's Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in 1794. A model of this memorial is preserved in the entrance floor of the present Monument.
The Monument occupies the southeast corner of the American re- doubt which was about eight rods square. It is built of granite quarried in Quincy. The first railroad in America was built in Quincy to carry this granite from the (Bunker Hill) quarry to the wharf on the Neponset River from which it was transported to Charlestown by boat. The Monu- ment is two hundred and twenty-one feet high, (ninety courses of stones,) thirty feet square at the base and fifteen feet square at the top. Two hundred and ninety-four winding stairs (no elevator) lead to the observa- tory room seventeen feet high and eleven feet square. In this observatory two light brass field pieces are displayed which were taken from a British gun-house by young Patriots, used during the Revolution and named HANCOCK and ADAMS by Major-General Henry Knox (then Secre- tary of War).
The Museum at the base contains interesting memorials and relics. The fine marble statue of General Joseph Warren who was killed in the battle (statue by Henry Dexter), the gun with which Peter Salem, a Negro mortally wounded Major Pitcairn (British), who is buried under CHRIST CHURCH, "The Old North Church of Paul Revere Fame," in Boston and old prints of General Lafayette are particularly interesting.
The corner stone was laid by General Lafayette, June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster delivering the oration. "A national salute fired at half past six o'clock on the evening of July 23, 1842, by the Charlestown Ar- tillery announced the completion of the Monument." Dedication exer- cises were held June 17, 1843; Daniel Webster was again the orator. In the great crowd that day were President Tyler, members of his Cabinet and a few survivors of the Battle. The Monument was designed by the sculptor Horatio Greenough; Solomon Willard was the construction ar- chitect.
The cost of the shaft alone was about $150,000; the total expendi- ture was about $200,000. All but $7,000 of this total was raised by public subscription. BUNKER HILL MONUMENT is truly a MONUMENT erected by the people to honor "Major-General Joseph Warren and his associates."
THE MONUMENT IS OPEN TO VISITORS FOR A SMALL FEE
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A large number of the British troops left their crowded camp on Boston Common the morning of June 17th, 1775 to embark for Moulton's Point in Charlestown. They landed on the "Point" (where now the United States Navy Yard is established) be- tween twelve and one o'clock that afternoon, and about three o'clock, advanced through the fields in two wings to the "BAT- TLE OF BUNKER'S HILL" at- tacking the redoubt and rail fence. This first attack failed; a second attack and repulse fol- lowed; then General Howe (Brit- ish) massed his troops who had been twice reinforced, for a third assault, concentrating the attack upon the redoubt.
The ammunition of the Ameri- cans was nearly exhausted, and after desperate defence General Prescott ordered a retreat. It was at this time General Joseph Warren fell, mortally wounded, and the loss of the Americans was greater than at any other period
BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL
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of the battle. By five o'clock the British had taken possession of the heights.
The Americans lost the Battle of Bunker Hill, but on that day the United Colonies won their war for independence. That bat- tle proved Colonial troops could withstand British troops in bat- tle. Said WASHINGTON, "I am content. The liberties of the country are safe."
It is probable few over 1200 Americans and over 3000 British were engaged in the battle. Rec- ords name 10 American officers and 141 of the rank and file killed or mortally wounded. Frothingham estimates the Am- erican losses at 140 killed, 271 wounded and 30 captured. The 2000 British troops first landed in Charlestown were twice rein- forced. Official British losses were 35 officers and 191 soldiers killed, 122 officers and 706 sol- diers wounded.
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"A Guide at a Glance"
REFERENCE
NORTH
CAMBRIDGE) ARLINGTON LEXINGTON CONCORD
BOSTON
Charlestown
Navy Yard
Bunker Hill
MARBLEHEAD SALEM
NORTH SHORE
1 Anne Hutchinson Monument 2 Beacon Pole (Original 1634) 3 Shaw Memorial
The Witches Craft The First to Fly
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18 .Wm. Lloyd Garrison's Office ( Liberator)
GRIFFINS WHARF
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20 James Franklin's Workshop
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
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To Visit the High Spots of Historic Boston And Old Residential Boston, Too
Historic-State House to Copp's Hill
Old Residential-Harrison Gray Otis House to State House
START At the STATE HOUSE: Go down Park St. along north side of BOSTON COMMON to THE PARK STREET CHURCH on Brimstone Corner ("America" first sung in public here.)
TURN LEFT to GRANARY BURYING GROUND. Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Boston Massacre victims and Mother Goose are buried here: To KING'S CHAPEL (0.1 mile) and KING'S CHAPEL BURYING GROUND, the first burying ground in Boston. Gov. Winthrop (first Governor), William Dawes, Jr., and Hester Prynne (Elizabeth Paine), heroine of Hawthorne's "Scar- let Letter" are here interred.
GO LEFT down School St. past CITY HALL to the OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE (0.2 mile), which ranks with Independence Hall in Philadelphia as a most notable landmark and reminder of early America on the Continent. Admission 25 cents.
TURN LEFT on Washington St. to the OLD STATE HOUSE (0.3 mile). "In this building," said Samuel Adams, "Independence was born."
GO RIGHT down State St. to point of the BOSTON MASSACRE, a raised circle of paving stones at intersection of Congress St. (0.4 mile).
TURN LEFT to FANEUIL HALL (0.5 mile) "Cradle of Liberty." Note Grass- hopper weather vane.
100 yards out Union St. in Marshall Lane is THE MARSHALL HOUSE, reput- edly the oldest brick building in Boston, and the BOSTON STONE (from which distances were measured).
TAKE NORTH ST. to PAUL REVERE'S HOUSE. in North Square (where North Street bears right) (0.9 mile). Oldest frame dwelling in Boston. (Restored.) Admission 25 cents.
ON TO CHRIST CHURCH, "THE OLD NORTH CHURCH OF PAUL REVERE FAME." (1.1 miles). Oldest church edifice in Boston. From the steeple were displayed the signal lanterns of Paul Revere. You are cordially invited to Sunday Morning Service (Episcopal) at 10:45 o'clock.
TO COPP'S HILL BURYING GROUND. (1.2 miles). Buried here are sexton Robert Newman, Daniel Malcolm and ministers Cotton and Increase Mather. Here were placed British batteries which set fire to Charlestown during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Excellent view of CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD, Home Port of U. S. Frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," and BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 1.5 miles additional.
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PAST NORTH STATION (1.6 miles) and UP LYNDE ST., to the OLD WEST CHURCH, Asher Benjamin, 1806, and the HARRISON GRAY OTIS HOUSE (2.0 miles). Headquarters of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Fine museum of Furniture, Pottery, Glass and Costumes. Admission 25 cents.
UP HANCOCK ST. and TURN RIGHT down MT. VERNON ST. TURN RIGHT through LOUISBURG SQUARE (2.4 miles), Louisa May Alcott lived at No. 10. TURN LEFT down Pinckney St., and TURN LEFT on Charles St. (Bea- con Hill is, and always has been, the fine old residential section of Boston.) TURN LEFT up BEACON ST. past MEMORIAL TO FOUNDERS (SPRING) on the Common Side (2.8 miles). (Notice the beautiful colored window panes, discolored by impurities in manufacture, at Nos. 64, 63 40 and 38) to THE STATE HOUSE. (THREE MILES.)
See the wonderful panorama of Boston and vicinity from the Custom House Tower (495 feet high) open to visitors.
(Notice Numbers and Refer to Tablets as you go along.)
To Visit the High Spots of Cultural Boston
Walking or Driving
"FOLLOW THE BLACK LINE ROAD" on the map and you see "HISTORIC" and "OLD RESIDENTIAL" Boston, but there is still another BOSTON, a third city within a city: I call it "CULTURAL BOSTON." Of course you will visit it. START from the corner of BOSTON COMMON at CHARLES and BOYLSTON Streets (where the British boats were drawn up for their expedition to Lexing- ton and Concord April 18, 1775) go
OUT BOYLSTON STREET past the PUBLIC GARDEN (beautiful flowers: the equestrian statue of WASHINGTON: the famous SWAN BOATS). Across Arlington Street is the ARLINGTON STREET CHURCH (Unitarian).
CLARENDON STREET stands TRINITY CHURCH (Protestant Episcopal). Pause and study the Saint Gaudens statue of PHILLIPS BROOKS, with the hooded figure of Christ in the background with His hand on the shoulder of the famous preacher. Facing TRINITY CHURCH across COPLEY SQUARE is the BOS- TON PUBLIC LIBRARY (Abbey's Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail and the Sargent "Triumph of Religion": the ancient railing from the Guild- hall of Boston, England, before which (1607) some of the Pilgrim Fathers stood for trial, is in the Delivery Room) and the new OLD SOUTH CHURCH (Con- gregational Trinitarian). Buildings of BOSTON UNIVERSITY are on Boyl- ston Street just beyond the Library.
TAKE HUNTINGTON AVENUE (keeping left of Library out of Copley Square) (.05 mile) pass MECHANICS BUILDING continue on to THE FIRST CHURCH
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OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, the "MOTHER CHURCH," and THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING HOUSE (on right 1.0 mile). Visit the Church and Publishing House, where you may walk through the Earth on the Equator in the MAPARIUM. Take the time necessary for a conducted visit through the building. Just beyond the MOTHER CHURCH is HORTICULTURAL HALL and SYMPHONY HALL (Home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). At Gainsboro Street stands the NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC and adjoining is the BOSTON Y. M. C. A. NORTHEASTERN UNI- VERSITY is the new building beyond the "Y", the BOSTON OPERA HOUSE across the Avenue. No. 416 is the TUFTS COLLEGE MEDICAL and DENTAL SCHOOLS, ON RIGHT is THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. (1.6 miles). Facing the entrance court is Cyrus E. Dallin's symbolic statue "THE APPEAL TO THE GREAT SPIRIT." In the Museum I particularly desire you to visit The EARLY AMERICAN WING, the two rooms of PAUL REVERE SILVER and the famous "Unfinished Portraits" of GEORGE WASHINGTON and MARTHA WASHINGTON painted by Gilbert Stuart. WENTWORTH INSTI- TUTE is opposite the Museum of Fine Arts. At FENWAY ROAD is the GIRLS LATIN SCHOOL.
TURN RIGHT ON LONGWOOD AVENUE (2 miles). The ANGELL MEMOR- IAL HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS and the MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY are on opposite sides of LONGWOOD AVENUE. The vine covered building is the HARVARD DENTAL SCHOOL and the beautiful group of marble buildings is the HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL (2.2 miles) with the CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL beyond. (In this immediate neighborhood stand the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Collis P. Huntington Memorial the House of the Good Samaritan, the Psychopathic Hospital, the Palmer Memorial Hospital, the New England Deaconess Hospital, the New England Baptist Hos- pital, the Robert Bent Brigham Hospital).
TURNING RIGHT down Avenue Louis Pasteur the new BOSTON LYING-IN HOSPITAL faces the HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. The next building on the right is the PUBLIC LATIN SCHOOL (present edifice of the FIRST PUB- LIC SCHOOL (1635) in North America). On the left is the HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE and way over on the left are the MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF ART, BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL and EMMANUEL COLLEGE (Women).
TURNING RIGHT INTO FENWAY pass SIMMONS COLLEGE (Women) and FENWAY COURT, (2.6 miles) the home of the late Isabella Stewart Gardner, which contains the rich collection of art belonging to the ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM (Open to public). Following MUDDY RIVER through the FENS past the FORSYTHE DENTAL INFIRMARY and FIRE ALARM HEADQUARTERS, CITY OF BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
TURN RIGHT INTO BOYLSTON STREET at the JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY monument (3.3 miles) (the Boston Medical Library and the house of the MASS- ACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY are on the right) through Copley Square to the starting point on BOSTON COMMON. Four and one-half miles. Transportation by Metropolitan Transit (Subway and Surface) is available from corner of Boylston and Arlington Sts., along Huntington Ave. to Longwood Ave.
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Highlights Near Boston
The following are only some of the HIGH-LIGHTS near Boston which I enjoy visiting. May I suggest that you call at the Chamber of Commerce or the Board of Trade in Quincy, Plymouth, Lexington, Con- cord and Salem for Guides of those communities.
THE SOUTH SHORE-Route 3A
QUINCY
Birthplaces of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.
The Adams Mansion, home of the two.
The Dorothy Q. House, home of beautiful Dorothy Quincy.
The Church of the Presidents in Quincy Square under which the Presi- dents Adams are buried.
The first Railroad built in the United States.
HINGHAM
Old Ship Church. Oldest church edifice in the country in which regu- lar services have been held.
GREENBUSH
The "WELL" and "THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET."
MARSHFIELD
The Winslow House. Daniel Webster Homestead.
DUXBURY
Myles Standish Monument and the John Alden House.
PLYMOUTH
Plymouth Rock.
Leyden Street.
Burial Hill.
Antiquarian House.
Pilgrim Hall.
The National Monument. Brewster Gardens. John Howland House.
Cole's Hill.
THE NORTH SHORE-Route 1A
MARBLEHEAD
Abbott Hall, Painting, "SPIRIT OF '76."
The Lee Mansion, home of Marblehead Historical Society. Fort Sewall and Marblehead Harbor. Agnes Surriage Well.
MARBLEHEAD NECK
SALEM
The Pioneer Village. House of the Seven Gables.
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The Essex Institute. The Peabody Museum. The Ropes Memorial. Chestnut Street, the Street of beautiful doorways.
The Drive along the North Shore through Beverly, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Magnolia to Gloucester (see the FISHERMAN'S MEMORIAL in Gloucester), East Gloucester, Rockport and around Cape Ann is especially beautiful.
WEST OF BOSTON-Route 2A
CAMBRIDGE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Longfellow House.
Harvard University, particularly the Blaschka Glass Flowers.
Mount Auburn Cemetery.
James Russell Lowell House.
Cambridge Common.
Christ Church.
Radcliffe College. Site of the WASHINGTON ELM and the Village Smithy.
ARLINGTON
The Jason Russell House.
LEXINGTON
The Munroe Tavern
The Buckman Tavern
Lexington Green The Hancock-Clark House
CONCORD
HISTORIC
The Battle Ground at NORTH BRIDGE.
"Bullet Hole House."
The Colonial Storehouse.
The Wright Tavern.
The Antiquarian House.
Grapevine Cottage, where the Concord Grape originated.
LITERARY
The Wayside, Home of Alcotts, Hawthorne, and "Margaret Sydney" (Five Little Peppers)
Orchard House, Home of Louisa May Alcott.
School of Philosophy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's House.
The Old Manse.
Country Store, run as Trading Post by grandfather and father of Thoreau. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
SOUTH SUDBURY
THE WAYSIDE INN made famous by Longfellow.
DEDHAM
THE OLD FAIRBANKS HOUSE (about 1636). Said to be the oldest house now standing in America.
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FUGIT
IANTO TEESDE MONTALEM
HERELIES Y BODY O. SARGENT RICHARD KET ELL AGED 71Y DE JUNE 29 6.80
First Masonic Grave in America -- 1680
Old Burying Ground (1638) Charlestown, Massachusetts
It is told that the Grand Lodge of England ordered no other stone be erected showing Masonic devices in such numbers.
THE LONGFELLOW HOUSE 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
This beautiful house was built in 1759 by Major John Vassall, a Tory who fled at the opening of the Revolution. It was occupied by General Washington as his Headquarters from July 15, 1775, to April 4, 1776. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in this house from 1837 until his death in 1882. He wrote "PAUL REVERE'S RIDE" here in 1860. The Longfellow House is open to visitors in the afternoon for a small fee. The telephone number is TRobridge 6-2340.
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