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THE BOOK OF BOSTON



Robert Shackleton

author of
"Unvisited Places of Old Europe"

Illustrated by R. L. Boyer


Penn Publishing Company
1916


The Park Street Church, from the Common

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I: TAKING STOCK OF THE CITY


CHAPTER II: BOSTON COMMON

CHAPTER III: BOSTON PREFERRED

CHAPTER IV: ON THE PRIM, DECOROUS HILL

CHAPTER V: THE CITY OF HOLMES

CHAPTER VI: A HOUSE SET ON A HILL

CHAPTER VII: A PICTURESQUE BOSTONIAN

CHAPTER VIII: A WOMAN’S CITY

CHAPTER IX: THE DISTINCTIVE PARK STREET CORNER

CHAPTER X: TWO FAMOUS OLD BUILDINGS

CHAPTER XI: TO THE OLD STATE HOUSE

CHAPTER XII: FANEUIL HALL AND THE WATERSIDE

CHAPTER XIII: THE STREETS OF BOSTON

CHAPTER XIV: IN THE OLD NORTH END

CHAPTER XV: DOWN WAPPING STREET AND UP BUNKER HILL

CHAPTER XVI: THE BACK BAY AND THE STUDENTS’ QUARTER

CHAPTER XVII: HEIGHTS REACHED AND KEPT

CHAPTER XVIII: “COLLEGES RED AND COMMON GREEN”

CHAPTER XIX: AN ADVENTURE IN PURE ROMANCE

CHAPTER XX: A TOWN THAT WASHINGTON WANTED TO SEE

CHAPTER XXI: THE FAMOUS OLD SEAPORT OF SALEM

CHAPTER XXII: THE MOST IMPORTANT ROAD IN AMERICA

CHAPTER XXIII: PLYMOUTH AND PROVINCETOWN

CHAPTER XXIV: “THE NIGHT FILLED WITH MUSIC”



ILLUSTRATIONS

The Park Street Church, from the Common
Doorway of the old house of the Harvard Presidents, Cambridge
The Shaw Memorial
Fountain on the Common
Boston from the Charles
The Long Path
St. Paul's, facing the Common
A doorway on Beacon Hill
Beautiful Mount Vernon Street
A Beacon Street mantel of 1818
The high-shouldered end of Cedar Street
Looking down old Pinckney Street
Thomas Bailey Aldrich's doorway
Quaint steps at end of Bosworth Street
The doorway of Prescott's home on Beacon Hill
The Sunny Street that holds the Sifted Few
Iron gateway at the State House
The Bostonian Hub of the Universe
Looking across the Public Garden
The Mall, across from Hancock's house
John Hancock's sofa
Entrance to the Women's City Club
A spiral stairway, by Bulfinch, on Beacon Hill
The Museum of Fine Arts, from the Fenway
The gate of the Granary Burying-Ground
Tremont Street along the Common
Old King's Chapel
Statue of Franklin at the City Hall
A narrow byway
The Old State House
Old India Wharf
Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market
T Wharf
Bridge on the Fenway
On Commonwealth Avenue
Old North Church
Interior of the Paul Revere house
Bunker Hill Monument
"Old Ironsides"
Where the British landed: the Navy Yard, Charlestown
The Boston Library
A Venetian palace in the Fenlands
Cloistered courtyard of Boston Library
Statue of Washington in Public Garden
Knox's cannon, on Cambridge Common
The Washington Elm, Cambridge
The Main Gateway of Harvard
At the Arnold Arboretum
Birthplace of two Presidents,
The Fairbanks house, Dedham; probably the oldest in New England
Church at Quincy
Stairway in the Lee mansion, Marblehead
The harbor of Marblehead
The old Cradock house on the Mystic
A Salem doorway
Romantic Chestnut Street, in Salem
Hawthorne's birthplace, Salem
The Old Manse, Concord
"Here Once the Embattled Farmers Stood": Concord
Emerson's library
The Alden house, at Duxbury
Plymouth, from the Graveyard on the Hill
Sand dunes of Provincetown
Along Charlesbank
Old Louisburg Square
A Club hallway

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