A half century of Boston's building : the construction of buildings, the enactment of building laws and ordinances, sanitary laws, the ancient and modern building, building statistics, Boston's valuation, a chapter of Boston's big fire, fire losses, public lands account, prominent architects, contractors and builders, building materials and their source of supply, inspection of buildings, the building and plumbing associations (1895)
Damrell, Charles S. (Charles Stanhope) · Boston : L.P. Hager · leaf 17
lly famous wife; thishouse being, through the days of the Revolution and the early days of the Union, the centreof Bostons most brilliant society, while it was also, during Hancocks term as Governor, theexecutive mansion. In 1859 a sf.i-ovnous effort was made in the State Legislature to purchasethe… … THE MERCHANTS EXCHANGE, STATE STREET. 30 A HALF CENTUKY OF BOSTONS BUILDING. The first block of buildings erected in Boston was that called the Tontine Block, inFranklin Place; which was a quagmire and deemed useless until 1792, when it was drained andlaid out as a garden. In 1793 a syndicate was…
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