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Title: Boston illustrated;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: (Stanwood, Edward), 1841-1923. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he Hemmenwaj^ Building now stands (see cut on page 87), until1883 stood an old building which was conspicuous among its neighbors as thehouse in which General Washington stayed during his visit to Boston in 1789,when Hancock turned him the cold shoulder. On Tremont Row, in this vicin-ity, was the court-quarter of old Boston, where stood the houses of GovernorEndicott, Sir Harry Vane, and Richard Bellingham, and the eminent divinesCotton, Oxenbridge, and Davenport. On Tremont Street just beyond School Street, south, and opposite the Tre-mont House, — which has been described in the previous chapter, — is TremontTemple. It occupies the site of the old Tremont Theatre, and is one of thebest known halls in the city for public assemblies of all kinds. The present isthe third building on this site known as Tremont Temple. The first was theTremont Theatre remodelled, in 1843, for the establishment of a popular Bap-tist Church. This building was destroyed by fire in March, 1852. Tlie next
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86 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. year a new building was completed wliicli in turn was burned in August, 1879.The present building was completed in October, 1880. It was in the haU of thesecond building that Mr. Charles Dickens gave his readings in Boston on liislast visit to America, and it was selected on account of its great capacity andadmirable acoustic properties. The present audience-room is one hundred andtwenty-two feet long, seventy-two feet wide, and sixty-six feet high, witli deep,enciiclijig galleries. It can seat comfortably 2,600 persons. It is provided witha fine Hook and Hastings organ. Beneath the large hall is a smaller one,known as the Meionaon, Avith an entrance through a long passage-way fromTremont Street. The Temple is occupied on Sundays by tlie Tremont TempleBaptist Church, wliich was established in 1839, and for which the hall was origi-nally coustructed. Several Baptist missionary and publication societies alsohave their headquarters in the building. The great hall h

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