Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 427
one. There was not a more beautiful site for a church in Boston. The ground was high and level,the old church having an unob-structed outlook over the harbor.Samuel Checkley was the firstpastor, ordained in 1718. Ourengraving represents the church asrebuilt in 1814. The originatorsof the movement… … VEW SOUTH CHURCH. PEOM CHURCH GEEEN TO LIBEETY TEEE. 381 feet from the foundation. The building was of Chelmsfordgranite, and designed by Bulfinch ; a portico projected fromthe front, supported by four Doric columns. In 1868 it wasdemoHshed, and the temples of traffic have arisen in its stead.…
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