2-752-406 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'View from Steeple of Arlington-Street Church', 1874. View of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 'In the immediate foreground lies the Public Garden...In the centre is a pretty serpentine, crossed by a heavy granite bridge...Beyond, almost hidden in its wealth of mature foliage, is the Common rising, by a graceful plane, to the State-House at its summit...Behind the Common you catch glimpses of the steeples and public halls of Tremont [Tri-Mountain] Street; the historic steeple of the Old South...the steeple of the Park-Street Church...the old Masonic Temple, now used as a United States court-house...new Masonic Temple...'.From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]