Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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an the manufacture of rolled copper bolts, spikes,etc. The copper bolts used in the construction of the Constitu-tion, Old Iron Sides, were made by Paul Revere. In 1795 hewas one of the organizers of the Charitable Mechanics Association,and served as its first president. The proprietorship of the works at Canton still remains withthe Revere Copper Company, successors to Paul Revere & Son.The president of the company is a grandson of Paul Revere. No more striking instance of the immense strides of modernenterprise can be found than from the fact that, in 1812, rolledcopper was sent from Canton to Philadelphia by ox teams ; whilein 1870, only fifty-eight years later, cars were loaded with copperore on the Pacific coast, and sent to Canton, and returned thenceto San Francisco laden with copper rolled into sheets and bars.Rcveres remains lie in the old Granary Burial Ground. Our portrait of Paul Revere was copied from a painting in thepossession of the Charitable Mechanic Association.
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ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 221 PROVINCE HOUSE. This ancient abode of the royal governors was situated nearlyopposite the head of Milk street. The place is now shut out fromview by a row of brick stores standing on Washington street. Itwas built, as a private enterprise, by one of the most opulentmerchants of olden times, Peter Sargent, Esq., who purchasedthe land of Col. Samuel Shrimpton, Oct. 21, 1676, and completedthe building in 1679. It was purchased of his widow by the Col-onial Legislature, April 12, 1716, for the use and entertainment ofthe governor of the Province. The price paid for it was £2,300.When the Mansion House became public property it was a mag-nificent building. No pains had been spared to make it not onlyelegant, but also spacious and convenient. It stood somewhatback in its ample lot, and had the most pleasant and agreeablesurroundings of any mansion house in town. It was of brick,three stories in height, with a high roof and lofty cupola, thewhole surmounted by a

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