Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . Prince. It is a preciousroll(;ction, containing many standard works in church his-tory, biblical literature, valuable pamphlets, and manu-scripts. For nearly one hundred years this has been thepublic libiary of that church, and accessible to any per-son desirous of using it for literary purposes. The Biuthplack of Franklin w^as where the blockof stores now stands that bear the inscription. On thats])ot, under the very shadow of the Old Souths tall spire,the printer, the legislator, the philosopher, the inimorialFraukliu, was born, whose
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Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . Prince. It is a preciousroll(;ction, containing many standard works in church his-tory, biblical literature, valuable pamphlets, and manu-scripts. For nearly one hundred years this has been thepublic libiary of that church, and accessible to any per-son desirous of using it for literary purposes. The Biuthplack of Franklin w^as where the blockof stores now stands that bear the inscription. On thats])ot, under the very shadow of the Old Souths tall spire, the printer, the legislator, the philosopher, the inimorialFraukliu, was born, whose statue, the work of RichardS. Greenough, may be seen in front of the City Hall inSchool Street. Passing from Washington to Ti-emont Street, throughSchool Street, the visitor will perceive on his right handthe new City Hall, built of line white Concord granite.Exclusive of the sub-eellar, l)asenient and attic stories, liUSTON AND VICINITY. it is three stories iu lieii^Iit. Its front is a hundiedaud thirty-eight feet in length, with a projection extend-. ing fourteen and a half feet from the main line, and fifty-one aud a half feet iu length. The building is ninety-five feet deep in the wings, and a hundred and nine anda half feet in the centre, and cost about $500, 000. The corner-stone was laid on the 22d of December, 1862, with Masonic ceremonies, conducted by the GrandLodge of Massachusetts, under the direction of the MostWorshipful Grand Master, William D. Coolidge. •JJ^ BOSTON ANL» VICINITV. lu the second story is the mayor and aldermens room, forty-five by forty-five feet, and twenty-five feet fonrinches high, extending upward to the height of the thirdstory. The common-council chamber is located iu the fourthstory, directly over the mayor and aldermens room. Itis forty-five by forty-five feet square on the floor, andtwenty-seven feet in height to the ceiling, whic-h is octag-onal. It has galleries on three sides, capable of seatingtwo hundred and fifty persons. Wifhin the