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Title: Bowen's Picture of Boston, or The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. : To which is prefixed the Annals of Boston. ; Embellished with engravings
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850 Bowen, Lorenzo H., publisher Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, printer Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, engraver Andrews, Joseph, 1806-1873, ill Wadsworth, Alexander, 1806-1898, cartographer Lilly, Wait, and Company, publisher
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Publisher: Boston: : Published by Lilly Wait & Co. and Lorenzo H. Bowen.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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axims of political truth which have extended an influ-ence over the habitable globe, and have given rise tonew republics, where despotism once held a court,glutted with the blood that would be free, were firstpromulgated in Faneuil Hall. Tyranny, with all itsconcomitant evils, was first exposed, and the great ma-chine of human wisdom, which was to emancipate manfrom the rapacious jaws of a British Lion, was put inactive operation in Faneuil Hall. The story of ourcountrys future greatness, her power, her learning,her magnitude5 her final independence, was told pro-phetically in the same immortal forum. FANEUIL HALL MARKET. Faneuil Hall Market is situated at the east end ofFaneuil Hall, between two streets called North andSouth Market Streets, having two streets passing atright angles at the east and west fronts, the one being76 feet, and the other at the east end, 65 feet wide.North Market Street is 65 feet wide, the South 102 feet,each street having a range of stores four stories high
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PICTURE OP BOSTON. 73 •with granite fronts; the range of stores on the northside 520 feet, and 55 feet deep ; on the south 530 feet,and 65 feet deep ; (an arched avenue in centre of eachrange five feet wide, communicating with the adjoiningstreets;) the facade of which is composed of piers, lintel,and arched windows on the second story. The roofsare slated, and the cellars water proof. The height andform of the stores were regulated by the conditions ofsale. The purchaser was required to erect, within alimited time, a brick store with hammered stone front,(granite piers,) in strict conformity with a plan drawnby Mr. Alexander Parris. The first operation for locating and building this spa-cious and superb Market House, commenced on the20th of August, 1824, by staking out the ground for thesame, and for the North Market Street; the old build-ings standing on the premises having been previouslypurchased by the city, but not removed. Shortly after the razing of these buildings, the fill

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