Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around (1902) (14779969214)

Identifier: pictorialguideto00bost (find matches)
Title: Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Boston : G.W. Armstrong Dining Room & News Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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north wing, facing the quadrangle, and a part of the westwing, fronting on Oxford Street; the Botanical Museum formsthe central part of the Oxford Street front; and the Mineralogi-cal Museum is in the same section. There are many oJ.ier buildings which arc connected with theuniversity, among which may be mentioned: The JeffersonPhysical Laboratory; Austin Hall; the Law School Building; theLawrence Scientific School; the Hemenway Gymnasium; thePhillips Brooks House, recently erected as a memorial to BishopBrooks, and serving as a centre for the religious work of thecollege; Radcliffe College, on Garden Street, the Harvard An-nex for women; and several fine dormitory buildings. Besides the large number of departments here described,Harvard has schools of Medicine. Dentistry and Agriculture inBoston. The Arnold Arboretum, mentioned under Parks andPlaygrounds. is its botanical garden; and it is planned soon toerect, on land facing Back Bay Fens, a large biological schooland laboratories.
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112 GUIDE TO BOSTON. On The Common, which is across Massachusetts Avenue,opposite the college grounds, may be seen the Soldiers Monu-ment and a statue of John Bridge, the Puritan, whose servicesto the colony are set forth in the inscriptions on the statue. Thecannon grouped about the Soldiers Monument are historic.They were captured by Ethan Allen, at Crown Point, in 1775.Washington, the following winter, dispatched General HenryKnox to bring them across country to Cambridge, on two greatsleds, drawn by eight yokes of oxen. They were employed onthe American redoubts on Dorchester Heights, in the siege ofBoston. Two of them are English guns bearing the broad arrowmark; the other is of French make, and was probably capturedat Quebec in 1745. The Old Burying Ground, or, as it was once called, GodsAcre, lies just south of the Common between the two oldchurches, the First Parish, on the avenue, and Christ Church, onGarden Street. It contains the graves or tombs of first settlers,early mini