Identifier: americapicturesq03cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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from 1638, occupy the floor abovethe Hall, while in front of it and extending towardsthe harbor is the spacious Quincy Market. At the corner of Washington and School Streetsis another ancient building, its quaint gambrels andgables recalling primitive architecture—the OldCorner Book-store, long a favorite literary haunt.Northward, AVashington Street extends to Hay-market Square, and beyond is Charlestown Street,passing by Copps Ilill, noAV reduced in size. Uponthis hill is the oldest Boston church,—Christ Churchin Salem Street,—dating from 1723, from whosesteeple, on the eve of the battle of Lexington, inAj)ril, 1775, were displayed the lights giving warn-ing of the movement of the )>ritish troops startingfrom Boston for Concord. These signals notifiedPaul Revere, across the Charles River, who made hisfamous midnight ride that roused the country. Thesilver-plate, service-books and Bible of the churchwere gifts from King George II., and in the adjacent jFaneuil Iball, Boston.
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NCTFABLE BOSTON ATTliACTIONS. 45 biirial-jjroiiiul arc tlie graves of the three noted Doc-tors ^latlior, who had so much to do with cohmialaffairs and liistory—Increase, Cotton and Samuel—tlie last dying in 1785. The great Boston fire of1872, which ravaged the district east of WashingtonStreet for two days, extended over fifty acres, and de-stroyed nearly eight hundred buildings. The sectionwas ijuiLkly rebuilt, however, with nuich finer struc-tures, and is now the chief wholesale business dis-trict oi Ioston. The elaborate Government Build-ing, containing the Post-office and Courts, was erected,since the fire, of Cape Ann granite, at a cost of $7,-500,000. In this district are enormous office-build-ings, insurance-offices, banks, extensive blocks ofstores, and the headquaters of the leading trades ofNew England, the boot and shoe, cotton and woollen,dry goods, j>aper and wool merchants, Boston beingthe greatest wool mart in the country. When Bos-ton, having preserved Beacon Il

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