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Title: Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eems to have placed a high estiiuate upon his commercial honor,and his charities were numerous and open-handed. If you enter the little passage-way just below INIerchantsEow, you will find a range of brick buildings, bounded northby Chatham Street and south by the passage-way. This is But-lers Row, and you may yet see the name cut in stone on thesoutheast corner of the block. Peter Butler, an old proprietor,had a warehouse and wharf here. Andrew, Peter, and BenjaminFaneuil all had warehouses on, or bounding upon, Butlers Row.These were all merchants of liigh standing, which marks thelocality as one of importance to the mercantile class. Seventy years ago the space between Batterymarch and StateStreets Avas occupied by a ship-yard and wharves. WHiere theold Custom House stands, on Custom House Street, large ves-sels have been built and launched. The massive proportions of the new Custom House, whichcontains about the same number of cubic feet of stone as Bunker* Dealings with the Dead.
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FKOM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 113 Hill Monument, stand on a foundation recovered from the sea.Begun in 1837, it took tlu-ee years to make a secure foundation.The building is cruciform, of the Grecian Doric order, and hasthe peculiarity that the roof is covered with granite tiles, ren-dering it completely fire-jiroof. Its position is not conspicuous,but it is one of the noticeable public edifices in Boston. It wascompleted in 1849, at a cost of over a million. A. B. Young,M. A., was the arcliitect. We may now take a retrospective view of State Street. Itis the busy mart and exchange of the city, sacred to the worshipof Mammon. Bills, stocks, and bonds are its literature, andin its vaults are fifty millions of dollars. Here Shylock meetsAntonio, and daily takes his pound of flesh. It is our Rialto,our Bourse, our Royal Exchange. But tune was when PerezMorton dwelt where the Union Banks strong coffers are, andJolm Coburn took gentlemen boarders just below the Post-Ofiice, —

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