Sights From The Towers With Maps Of Boston

Author : Moses Foster Sweetser
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266958628
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Sights from the Tower of Boston written by Moses Foster Sweetser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sights From the Tower of Boston: An Illustrated Guide With Map Washington Street is the chief street, and meanders in long curves from the North End to Roxbury, traversing the region of retail business. Tremont Street runs along one side of the Common, passing from Scollay Square and the foot of Beacon Hill to Roxbury and Brookline, and containing many attractive stores. The cross streets connecting these two -temple Place, Winter Street, etc. Also are occupied by retail shops, where a large business is done, State Street, running from Washington Street to the harbor, is largely devoted to banks and other financial institutions, and is the Wall Street of New England. The wholesale business district is included between Washington, Beach, and Hanover Streets, and the harbor. In Pearl, High, and Purchase Streets, and around the ancient Church Green, is the boot and shoe district. On and near Summer Street are the great wholesale dry-goods houses. Atlantic Avenue, a noble thoroughfare, 100 feet wide, and built at a cost of runs along the heads of the wharves, and is the seat of much of the shipping interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.