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Title: Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Middlesex County (Mass.)--History Middlesex County (Mass.)--Description and travel
Publisher: J.R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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for more than forty years, when he removed to Boston.Green printed the Cambridge Platform in 1649 ; the Lawsin 1660; and the Psalter, Eliots Catechism, BaxtersCall, and the Bible in the Indian language in 1685. Dayespress, or some relics of it, are said to have been in existence aslate as 1809 a£ Windsor, Yt. All these early publications areof great rarity. Massachusetts, which is the first of the old halls reached incoming from the Square, is the oldest building now standing.It is but one remove from, and is the oldest existing specimenin Massachusetts of, our earliest types of architecture as appliedto public edifices. Like Harvard, it presents its end to thestreet, and faces upon what was the College green a century anda half gone by, — perhaps the very place where Eobert Calefswicked book was, by an edict which smacks strongly of theInquisition, burnt by order of Increase Mather. * Winthrops Journal. \s 1 1 ; ,i ■ i $ ■ 55 1 1 - : x ;\fM ;1 $ ; 1 M ■■■»! J\ w^ =u3 Hr
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A DAY AT HARVARD, CONTINUED. 225 The building, with its high gambrel roof, dormer windows,and wooden balustrade surmounting all, has a quaint and de-cidedly picturesque appearance. Though nominally of threestories, it shows five tiers of windows as we look at it, abovewhich the parapet terminates in two tall chimneys. Betweeneach range of windows is a belt giving an appearance of strengthto the structure. On the summit of the western gable was aclock affixed to an ornamental wooden tablet, which is still inits place, although the clock has long since disappeared. Mas-sachusetts contained thirty-two rooms and sixty-four studies,until its dilapidated condition compelled the removal of all theinterior woodwork, when it was converted into a gallery for thereception of the portraits belonging to the College. Many of these portraits are originals of Smibert, Copley, andStuart, which makes the collection one of rare value and ex-cellence. Of these, two of the most characteristic are of oldTh

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