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Title: Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: Boston, The G. W. Armstrong dining room & news co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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left, is the YoungMens Christian Association building, and on the right the Bos-ton Museum of Natural History, and the buildings of the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. Opposite the latter is the iHotel Brunswick. And now Copley Square, the artistic and liter- jary centre of Boston is passed, with Trinity Cmrch. the Museum !of Fine Arts, and the Public Library, on the left, and the new jOld South Church on the right. BeytMid the Library is theHarvard Medical School, and, opposite, on the corner of ExeterStreet, the Hotel Lenox. Now the route is along Boylston toMassachusetts Avenue, which is followed westward, across Com-monwealth Avenue, where, at the left, may be seen a bit of theBack Bay Fens and the statue of Leif Erickson, and, on theright, beyond the vista of boulevard and garden, the Soldiersand Sailors Monument, towering from its height on The Com-mon. At Beacon Street another turn is made, and. looking north-ward, is a charming view down Beacon Street, cappei this time
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148 GUIDE TO BOSTON. by the golden dome which it seems hard to miss from any partof the city. There is also another glimpse of the Fens, and ofthe Charlesgate Hotel and the Harvard Bridge. Speeding along the broad boulevard with its bridle path on theright, and two wide driveways, one passes many beautifulhomes, and, beyond Coolidge Corner, Corey Hill is seen on theright. Among the buildings one is sure to notice, are the castle-like apartment-houses known as Beaconsfield Terraces, and agray turretted house—the Jordan mansion. As the car runs udthe hill to the right, a fine view is had of the Chestnut HillReservoir and the pumping station of the Boston Waterworks.The reservoir has 125 acres of water surface, and holds about730 millions of gallons, but is replenished constantly fromsources of supply farther away. The boulevard surrounding thereservoir makes a beautiful drive. Chestnut Hill has many fineresidences, and on its northern slopes arc many fine estates. It pays one to leave

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