3-047-093 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Great Fire at Boston: Washington-Street, looking towards the Old South Church, 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. This old church, which has fortunately been spared, is of some historical interest, having been founded 200 years ago; but the present building dates from 1730. During the Revolution, from 1771 to 1775, it was often used, like the old Faneuil Hall, for patriotic political meetings, and the State Legislature of Massachusetts, at the opening of its session, attends Divine worship in this church'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.