3-047-092 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Great Fire at Boston: Milk-Street, looking from Washington-Street, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. W. Black. 'We have now received photographs and sketches of the actual conflagration and its effects...They show the ruins left near where the fire was at last stopped on the Monday morning, about the corner of Washington-street and Milk-street, in close vicinity to the Post Office and the Old South Church...A little way down Milk-street, at the corner of Devonshire-street, is the superb new Post Office, an immense pile not yet completed, which has also narrowly escaped destruction. School-street, on the opposite side of Washington-street, leads to another new grand public building, the City Hall, which was erected seven or eight years ago, costing half a million dollars. Between Bromfield-street and Winter-street, a short distance westward, are the Music-Hall, the Lowell Institute, and other places of well-known resort, with the Tremont Temple, the Museum, and the principal theatres, not far off, all which would have been destroyed if the fire had spread beyond Washington-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.