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...garage, now being built in the Yard between Emerson Hall and the President's House, marks what may be the first structure in a new building program under President Conant. It faces Quincy Street along the gravel driveway, and is constructed of red brick, inn harmony with the other buildings in the Yard. The two swinging doors will be set in colonial arches of white wood, and besides the four big square windows and the door, there will be two round windows in each gable-end, at the front and back of the garage. This will heighten the Georgian effect...
...Built 1759-61. Being Tory property, the church was used as a barracks by the provincial troops during the seige of Boston and the lead pipes of the organ were melted into pullets. When Washington took command of the Continental Army, the church was restored as a house of worship. The pew used by Washington has remained undisturbed...
...Built in 1759 by Colonel John Vassall, Jr., a Tory, who fled at commencement of Revolution. Occupied by Washington as headquarters from July 1775, to April, 1776. Subsequently bought by Andrew Craigie, from whose estate Longfellow purchased it about 1843. Generally called Craigie House. Before sale to Longfellow it was occupied by Jared Sparks, Edward Everett and Joseph E. Worcester, of dictionary fame. Open to visitors only on Saturday afternoons from...
...will not pause long to honor one who was heard but not heeded. With the loss of his penetrating criticism, there will undoubtedly be a new flow of shallow carping by the second-rate "genius" which has long been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains of a new adolescence. But he would have been a stubborn man indeed who would have argued with Professor when he held...
Potter Palmer built his mansion for Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, a Kentucky belle, out of a fortune he had made in the dry-goods business and plowed back into a mile of State Street real estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with...