Identifier: historictourpilg00busc (find matches)
Title: An historic tour; a pilgrimage to the birthplace of American liberty, and the homes of our foremost authors
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: (Busch, John J.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel Lexington (Mass.) -- Description and travel Concord (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Hudson printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY famous masters, including the Holy Grail by Abbey, theFlight of Time by Eliott and some of Sargents best work.To the right is the New Old South Church; built in 1875to take the place of the Old South Meeting House. Thisbuilding is modelled after the Mosque of Omar and has thehighest tower in the city, standing two hundred and fortyeight feet high and five degrees out of perpendicular owing to the settlins^ of the made land on which it stands. The Boston Universiiy College of Liberal Arts on theleft was formerly the Harvard Medical School Building. Looking to the left across the New York Central trainyards can be seen Mechanics Pavilion the home of the Mass-achusetts Charitable Mechanic Association of which PaulRevere was the first president. Its two Exhibition Halls,—Paul Revere and Talbot—cover an area of four and one-halfacres. It is here all the large conventions and fairs are held.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEMPLE. THE MOTHER CHURCH Looking still further beyond the yards we see the large,granite dome of the new Christian Science Temple founded byMrs. Mary Baker Eddy. It was built at a cost of $2,000,000. 6 The top of the dome stands three feet higher than BunkerHill Monument, being 224 feet above the sidewalk. Thischurch has a full set of Chinese chimes. The small churchwith the square tower is the mother church of Christian Science. The brick building with the granite trimmings on therio-ht is the home of the Boston Tennis Club and contains thefinest indoor tennis courts in the world. Ahead, may be obtained a glimpse of the Back Bay Fensextending for a distance of thirty miles in and (out) aboutthe city. In the Fens are located Mrs. Jack Gardners famousVenetian Palace; Simmons College for Young Ladies; thenew Boston Museum of fine Arts; the new Harvard Medicaland Dental Schools; the new Boston Grand Opera House;Fenway Park the home of the Red Sox and olher public andpr

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