Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 54
KINGS CHAPEL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 29 Kings Chapel is the fifth in the order of Boston churches.The architect was Peter Harrison, of Newport, E. I., and the planembraced a steeple, which Mr. Harrison thought essential to hisgeneral design, and would have a beautiful effect. For want … kings chapel as it appears in 1872. of funds, however, the steeple was never built. GovernorShirley laid the corner-stone on the 11th of August, 1749, andafter giving the workmen ^20 (old tenor) to drink his health,went into the old church, which was still standing, where aservice appropriate to…
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