Identifier: sightsinbostonsu1856midg2 (find matches)
Title: Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Midgley, R. L
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Publisher: Boston : J. P. Jewett & company Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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p, might have been seen inthe vicinity, and all excitement have been confined to apalaver around the council-fire. But a truce to the past;it is Dock-square, and nothing else, now. And, in lieu of groves or glades, we have a busy, openspace, with labyrinthine thoroughfares leading into and outof it. Bustling, anxious-faced men are to be seen thereat all hours of the day, rushing hither and thither, intenton dollars and dimes. House and hotel keepers payflying visits to the market close by; visitors from all partspf the States look curiously at the Cradle of Liberty; omnibuses rush along, distracting perilled pedestrians; DOCK-SQUARE. d market-carts, laden with, country produce, stand sur-rounded by dealers, and everything is full of life andanimation. Looking calmly down upon and over-shadowing this scene of commercial activity, is a hugestructure — Faneuil Hall. Of it we shall presentlyspeak. At present let us direct our glance to — artis-tically speaking — a bit of Old Boston.
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Old House. — There it stands at the corner of Northand Market streets, dingy, quaint, time-battered, many-gabled, but picturesque, for all that. They say it was built 4 BOSTON SIflHTS. in the year 1680, soon after the great fire of 1679. Thepeaks of the roof remain precisely as they were firsterected, the frame and external appearance never havingbeen altered. The timber used in the building was prin-cipally oak, and, where it has been kept dry, is perfectlysound, and intensely hard. The outside is covered withplastering, or what is commonly called rough-cast. Butinstead of pebbles, which are generally used at the presentday to make a hard surface on the mortar, broken glasswas used. This glass appears like that of common junk-bottles, broken into pieces of about half an inch diameter,the sharp corners of which penetrate the cement in such amanner that this great lapse of years has had no percep-tible effect upon them. The figures 1680 were impressedinto the rough-cast to show the y

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