Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger (1856)
Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894, Andrew, John, 1815-1875, egr., Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1875, egr., Hill George W., 1815-1893, egr., Barry, egr. · John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington · leaf 35
rtyfeet long, north and south, seventy-five feet wide at theends, and ninety-five feet through the centre. It is sur-mounted by a flat dome, which is ninety-five feet from2 14 BOSTON SIGHTS. the floor, and is built in the pure Doric order of architecture. Each front has a portico of six fluted… … The Custom House is built on three thousand piles,driven in the most thorough manner. Immediately on thetop of these piles is a platform of granite, one foot sixinches thick, laid in hydraulic cement, and upon it thefoundations of the walls were commenced. CUSTOM HOUSE. 15 The roof of the building…
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