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Rambles Around Old Boston

By

Edwin M. Bacon

With Drawings by

Lester G. Hornby

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company

1921

Copyright, 1914,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
 


Contents

    I.      THE STORIED TOWN OF “CROOKED LITTLE STREETS”

   II.      OLD STATE HOUSE, DOCK SQUARE, FANEUIL HALL

  III.     COPP’S HILL AND OLD NORTH (CHRIST) CHURCH REGION 

  IV.     THE COMMON AND ROUND ABOUT

   V.     OVER BEACON HILL                     

  VI.     THE WATER FRONT                     

 VII.    OLD SOUTH, KING’S CHAPEL, AND NEIGHBORHOOD

VIII.    PICTURESQUE SPOTS

 

Illustrations

The Underground Passage Between old Province Court and Harvard Place
The Old South Church
The Frigate Constitution at the Navy Yard
Dorchester Heights from Meeting House Hill
The Province Court Entrance to the Underground Passage
Harvard Place
The Old State House
In Dock Square
Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market
Quaint Buildings of Cornhill
Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
Christ Church
Bunker Hill Monument from the Belfry of Christ Church
The Paul Revere House, North Square
On the Common, Showing Park Street Church
On Boston Common Mall in front of old St. Paul’s
Across the Frog Pond to the old houses of Beacon Hill
Dome of the State House, and site of the old John Hancock House
Colonial Doorway and Lamp on Mount Vernon Street
Number 74 1/2 Pinckney Street
Old Loft Buildings, Commercial Wharf
The last of the Fishing Fleet at old T Wharf
A Bit of old Long Wharf
In the old “Bell-in-Hand” Tavern
King’s Chapel
The Iron Gate between Province and Bosworth Streets
A Bit of old Leverett Street
The Quaint Corner where Poplar and Chambers Streets meet
The Boston Stone