Samuel Adams Drake - Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston

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old landmarks and historic personages of boston

Boston in 1830, from City Point, Windmill Point in Foreground.

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CHAPTER I.

king's chapel and the neighborhood.

History of the Chapel.Establishment of the Church of England.Chapel Burial-Ground.Boston Athenum.Academy of Arts and Sciences.Historical Society.The Museum.The Old Corner.Royal Custom House.Washington.H. G. Otis.Daniel Webster.Tremont Street.Howard Street.Pemberton Hill.Endicott.Captain Southack.Theodore Lyman, Senior.John Cotton.Sir Henry Vane.Samuel Sewall.Gardiner Greene.Earl Percy.Bellingham.Faneuil.Phillips.Davenport.Oxenbridge.Beacon Street.School Street.Latin School.Franklin Statue.City Hall.Otis.Warren.Mascarene.Cromwell's Head.The Old Corner Bookstore.Anne Hutchinson.The French Church.Catholic Church.Second Universalist.Province Street.Chapman Place.James Lovell.Wendell.

W E choose King's Chapel for our point of departure, as well from its central position as from the fact that its vicinage is probably the oldest ground built upon in Boston, Blackstone's lot alone excepted.

The exterior of King's Chapel does not present any remarkable architectural features. It has an air of solidity and massiveness that seems to bespeak the intention of its builders that it should remain where it was placed. This purpose is likely to be set at naught by the proposed removal of the Chapel northwardly, to widen School Street. So improbable an idea never entered the heads of the founders; but we make nothing nowadays of taking up blocks of brick or stone bodily, and moving them whither we list.

governor shirley.

King's Chapel is the fifth in the order of Boston churches. The architect was Peter Harrison, of Newport, R. I., and the plan embraced a steeple, which Mr. Harrison thought essential to his general design, and would have a "beautiful effect." For want of funds, however, the steeple was never built. Governor Shirley laid the corner-stone on the 11th of August, 1749, and after giving the workmen 20 (old tenor) to drink his health, went into the old church, which was still standing, where a service appropriate to the occasion was held by Rev. Mr. Caner, the rector.

king's chapel as it appears in 1872.

Mr. Harrison had been requested to present drawings with both a double and single tier of windows. Two rows were adopted, the lower ones giving that prince of punsters, Mather Byles, an opportunity of saying that he had heard of the canons of the church, but had never seen the port-holes before.

The stone for the chapel came from Braintree, and was taken from the surface of the ground, no quarries being then opened. The rough appearance of the stone is due to the limited knowledge of the art of dressing it which then prevailed.