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Beacon Hill is a mixture now. On one side are famous old homes with lofty stairways and small, purple window panes, these on Beacon Street and around Louisburg Square where carollers come each Christmas eve. On the other side are cheap tenements, some half-empty, and between, the apartments of Beacon Hill's persistent, self-styled artists' colony. Just in back of Beacon Hill is Scollay Square which is not, anyone will tell you, what it used to be. After the war there weren't as many sailors, and then one Thursday night the Crawford House burned down, and Boston...
...Pulitzer Prize) and leading citizen of Boston. As a longtime editor of the Youth's Companion and the Atlantic Monthly, Howe has moved throughout his life near the stamen of flowering and fading New England. Since his wife's death he has lived at 16 Louisburg Square with an old friend and an Irish housekeeper. Most of his books are as Bostonian as the Old North Church. Samples: Semicentennial History of the Tavern Club; Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries. Yet for all his patina, Howe is not a proper Proper Bostonian...
Though at 63 Joe Welch has the manner of a Louisburg Square patrician, he comes from the plainest Midwestern pioneer stock. Both his parents were English-born. Father William Welch ran away to sea at 14, wandered the world for 15 years (including a three-month hitch with the British army during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857), finally immigrated to his brother's' farm in Illinois and married the hired girl. William Welch was a simple man and good, but in his years at sea, he developed an abiding affection for the bottle. Martha Welch decided to remove...
...Beacon Hill's population increased, Louisburg Square suffered a constant, if mild invasion of its private property. Contemptuous gas buggies parked in the space that was reserved for Louisburg residents. The residents were forced to recognize the new motor fad and resignedly hired a policeman to ticket illegal parkers. At times the trespassers have proved so numerous that the Proprietors have put up gates across each end of the Square to keep out inquisitive Boston...
...days, the Square has slowly been dropping its guard against modern Boston. There are now may apartments on the North side filled with solid professional men and their families. But the past is sometimes still vividly near. The carollers still past on the Hill on Christmas Eve, and Louisburg residents still put candles out for them. But where it lives most vividly is in the minds he has asked about the Square, Proprietor said when he was asked about the Square, "I'd like to help you, but I don't really know anything about Louisburg Square--I only moved...