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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 37

An illustration from Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger, 1856, leaf 37
s sixty-three feet in itsgreatest length, fifty-nine feet wide, and sixty-two feethigh to the skylight. The ceiling is supported by twelve columns of mar-ble, three feet in diameter and twenty-nine feet in height, 16 BOSTON SIGHTS. with highly-wrought capitals; the ceiling is ornamentedin a neat… … Passing up State Street, we soon reach The Exchange.It is a splendid building, fronting on State Street. Thecorner stone was laid August 2, 1841; the building com-pleted 1842, and cost, exclusive of land, $175,000. Thewidth on State Street is seventy-six feet, the height seventy THE KXCHAXCiE. 17…

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