Identifier: illustratedbosto00unse (find matches)
Title: Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : American Publishing and Engraving Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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The Chaunoy Hall School, Boylston JO ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. Clarendon Street is the massive stone edifice of the First Baptist Church (formerly the Brattle Square Congre-gational Unitarian). The First Church (Congregational Unitarian) is located on Marlborough Street andBerkeley Street, It is the direct descendant of the first church established in Boston. The church was firstformed in Charlestown, and the members of it, on coming to Boston, built the first meeting house on StateStreet, near where tho Brazer Building stands. The church was afterwards removed on to Washington Streetnear top of State Street, then to Chauncy Place, and, finally to its present location. The Protestant Episco-palians have a fine church, with a very rich interior, on Newbury Street, known as the Emmanuel Church.
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Boston Common—Beaoun Street MalL A short distance from it, on the corner of Newbury and Berkeley Street* is the handsome Central Church(Congregational Trinitarian), which possesses the tallest spire in the city, the height being 236 feet OnBerkeley Street is the Notre Dame Academy, and at the corner of Boylston and Arlington Streets is the widelyknown Arlington (Unitarian) Church, of which Rev. Hereford Brooke is pastor. Huntington Avenue has uponit the famous exhibition building of the charitable Mechanic Association, covering an area of 96,000 squarefeet, and erected in 1881. A short distance from it is the Childrens Hospital, a useful and well-conductedinstitution. There are many other notable residences and buildings, but space will not allow us to treat ofthem separately. ROXBURY. The thoroughfares leading to it aro four, namely, Harrison Avenue, Washington Stroot, Sbawmnt Atenueand Tremont Street. This it the order of their succession, viewed laterally, Tremont Street being th

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