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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
had taught in England, having among his converts John Eliot, apostle to the Indians. Mr. Hooker's friends built a meeting-house here and sent for him to be pastor. The church then was on Water street, now Dunster, south of Spring street, now Mt. Auburn. Hooker soon removed, with most of his congregation, to Hartford. At his departure, the remaining members of his flock founded a new church. The first regular church edifice was built near Governor Dudley's house, and Mr. Thomas Shepard was Washington used the northeast room of this house as a commissary office. Of all the historic houses here, the most interesting to me, aside from Craigie House and Elmwood, is the so-called Bishop's palace. It is on Linden street, between Mt. Auburn and Massachusetts avenue, and stands well back, with its side to the street. A path leads up to it, between old borders of fragrant box. This house was built about 1761 by the Rev. East Apthorp, first rector of Christ Church. When the Puritan
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), chapter 11 (search)
y. It is a difficult and complicated subject. but the material now being gathered and preserved will inevitably lead to a great expansion of our present knowledge. The grave of Agassiz The Agassiz Museum. Many pilgrims go out to Mount Auburn, the Westminster Abbey of America, and few of them fail to stop and pay their tribute of respect before the tomb of Agassiz. There is a nobler monument to the great scientist, however, than even that noble tomb. His name and life work are pefrom room to room and from gallery to gallery, and seeing the crowded cases, one begins to appreciate in a degree the labor which has been expended upon the Museum, and learns to honor the memory of Agassiz more even than by the tomb in sacred Mount Auburn. From the Agassiz Museum proper, one passes into the Botanical and Mineralogical Museums. These occupy sections of the University Museum building adjoining the Zoological Museum. The mineralogical exhibition is extensive and interesting.
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn. (search)
romantic interest. It was the theme of many a lay, and dear to many a heart. But the time came when it was to be yet dearer and more widely sacred, when as Mount Auburn it was to have a national reputation. Probably no place in the world was ever more naturally beautiful and appropriate for the city of the dead, or more atture holy grows, Feeling's deep current here more tranquil flows, A calm, a soothing influence o'er the heart These scenes so fair, so beautiful impart. Blest, O Mount Auburn, be thy leafy shades! Blest be thy hills, thy streams, thy cool, green glades! The solemn service of the dedication of the lovely grounds as the holy resting-place sacred to the dead was held in Mount Auburn, September 24, 1831. Calm was the morning of that lovely day, The autumnal sun in golden splendor lay On the smooth turf, the broad enamelled plain, The waving harvest field of ripened grain, And shed its glory o'er the forest wide, In rich and glowing colors deeply dyed. Up