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.

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dwindows. The building was surmounted by battlements and pinnacles and had two towers, each sixteen feetsquare and ninety-five feet high. The Masonic body held their lodges here until they erected their new Tem-ple on the corner of Boylston Street, and thenit was for years occupied as the United States Circnit CourtThree or four years ago the property was purchased by R. H. Stearns <fe Co., and the building was raisedbodily and two stories built under it, while its outward aspect as well as its interior arrangements was entirelychanged. It is now devoted to the dry-goods business. From West Street to Boylston Street high, imposing buildings have been erected on the sites of oldhouses, and this quarter is now chiefly occupied by the Boston Conservatory of Music, and by so many piano*manufacturing concerns as to have earned the name of Piano Row. The new Masonic Temple, on thecorner of Tremont and Boylston Street, built in 1867, is seven stories high, with octagonal towers rising 120
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Book Squares. 66 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. foct It contains three magnificent halls for meetings one being furnished with splendor in the Corinthianstyle, another in the Egyptian, and the third in the Gothic. f\ rthwwd along this busy thoroughfare,We now turn into Washington Street, and retrace our steps n,rthward a g , ^ fiHcd at all hours of the day with a seething mass of human be ngs. ? (anciently cal.ed Frog Lane) into ^^NSSjp. Street, coir of Essex, will be observed on the front of the bu.ldn g on tl ea t sid ^ ot g ^ ^ ^ Here stood the Liberty Tree under wb.cb the «Sons of Liberty of thc English 0Dder which meeting, were held to give ZS^^A « *• *™th! present Washington Street was a series of streets from dow.-town tothe Roxb y ^Marlborough, Newbury, Orange a

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