Identifier: authenticcompreh00bost (find matches)
Title: Authentic and comprehensive guide and history of Boston ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
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Publisher: Boston, Shepard, Norwell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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name. Not far from the Warren House, we come to Walnutavenue, which is the first broad road branching to theright. This avenue is macadamized, and fine residencesand country scenery line it on both sides. Here will beseen, on the left, the palatial residence of the late HoratioHarris, near to which is that of Mr. Williams,—two ofBostons merchant princes. About a mile from these ele-gant places is Forest Hills avenue, which turning to theleft, leads to the beautiful Gods Acre, Forest HillsCemetery. Passing through the imposing arch, whichforms the gateway, we find ourselves in one of the mostpicturesque of modern American cemeteries, which areconceded as being the finest in the world, and laid out withall the taste and effect that skilled architects could bringto add to its natural advantages. Forest Hills is superiorto Mount Auburn in many respects. It is naturally not ascrowded as the latter, for it is the latest burial place openednear Boston. Among many magnificent mortuary monu-
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84 merits, the receiving-tomb claims precedence; for it issaid to be the finest in the country, being built of Concordgranite, in the Gothic style of architecture, and containsover two hundred and eighty vaults. The remains of Gen-eral Warren, the martyr of Bunker Hill, which were de-posited in the old Granary Burying Ground in Boston,have been removed to the Warren Family lot, on MountWarren, in Forest Hills. Respect for the dead, being one of the many generoustraits in the American character, is here amply shown tohave been the predominant feeling of those to whose tal-ents was entrusted the creation of this beautiful City ofthe Dead. Like all of the cemeteries around Boston,Forest Hills is open to visitors only during week days. Returning, drive down Forest Hills street, into ShawmutAvenue, taking the left hand turning, which brings one toJamaica Plain, where the old Curtis Homestead stands,which was built in 1638. This is the oldest house inNew England. Turn down Pond street, whic

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