Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 272
nce House was one of the last relics of the col-ony to disappear. It has formed the theme of some pleasantfictions by Hawthorne in Twice-Told Tales, as well as a briefsketch of the edifice not founded in fancy. The liquid whichmine host mixed for the novelist before he set about his re-searches has… … r, y^ ^ PROVINCE HOUSE. from the vision of the passer-by by a row of brick structuresstanding on Washington Street. Before the erection of anybuildings to screen it from view, the Province House stoodtwenty or thirty paces back from old Marlborough Street, witha handsome grass lawn in front,…
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