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1864 AD (search for this): chapter 2
. My employer would like to see it, I know. She was allowed its use, and Mr. Ober had a local artist (Hans Schroff) copy it, and (framed) it hangs in his store. From it our cut was made. But ere that a young journalist secured it for a time, and a larger reproduction, with a breezy story of the famous school, appeared in the Medford Mercury, that to which Mrs. B. alluded in her opening sentence. Second.—While on a visit to Glens Falls, N. Y., we called upon Mr. George K. Hawley, who in 1864 lived in the Mystic Hall tenement, and boarded the bricklayers that built Medford's disused subway. We have heard he was time-keeper on that work. (See Vol. XX, p. 1.) During the interview he produced the first year book of the seminary as printed, containing the view entitled School for Young Ladies, which we had not before seen, and kindly allowed us its use. Thus, from unexpected sources, these views of Medford have come. We have been asked by some if we consider them good. This
May 1st (search for this): chapter 2
s had the figure of a couchant lion beside the entrance drive, and to make it more realistic a den of rocks was built over his leonine majesty. This was a protective measure, as we are told it was a plaster cast. This lion at first had a terrifying aspect, which disappeared after a few scrubbings given it, and later the lion also departed. But ere this was the clergyman's dog his master refused to take out license for, a little way up Forest street. The story was, that soon after the first of May the zealous constable was informed thereof and hastened to find the owner. The clergyman, like many other reverend gentlemen, enjoyed a joke (and was probably aware of the conspiracy existing), and firmly refused to save his favorite canine from threatened shooting, and on demand of the officer pointed out the victim's whereabouts. The big iron dog, recumbent beside the walk, had not molested the officer at his excited coming. Perhaps he laughed at his crestfallen departure. Anyway, i
1852 AD (search for this): chapter 2
e been asked by some if we consider them good. This leads us to the following comment, we trust not over-critical, and not unfriendly: First, remembering that in the early fifties few views were obtained other than by sketching from nature, we can overlook the faults, respecting the motive prompting the effort. Concerning the delineator of the second-named we have no clue whatever. The point of view must have been from across High street and looking south. As the canal (discontinued in 1852) still had water enough to skate upon (see Vol. XI, No. 3) and the bridge on High street still remained, the artist (perhaps one of the girls) bent it around some to get it into the drawing (at the right), but showed the great willow tree on the farther bank. Mystic Hall is in the right position (at the left-hand) but the big poplar was across Harvard avenue. We know, as we cut it down before building the Odd Fellows hall. The legend on that building was, in gilded iron letters, Mystic Hal
1855 AD (search for this): chapter 2
were these owners, would have surrounded their homes with any inferior specimens of art. There were also two statues on the elder Magoun's estate, which like those already named, are shown in the steel engravings in Brooks' History of Medford (1855). These, with similar marble vases, are mentioned in the letter of Mr. Magoun to the selectmen, as included in his gift, and are shown in the illustration in the Usher publication of 1886. But where are they today? On the front lawn of the oldparvo. The farthest house was really as far from High street as is the present 56. The fence around Mystic Hall was there in 1870, but in line with the oval was a willow four feet in diameter, which could not have grown in the fifteen years since 1855. Again, we found in 1870 an unsightly outbuilding, screened somewhat (where the oval is shown), on the walls of which various classic quotations were written. We will quote one:— Honest man, in the ear of reason, is a grander title than peer
1916 AD (search for this): chapter 2
1886. But where are they today? On the front lawn of the old Brooks mansion on Grove street, also, were two smaller statues of white marble, on pedestals of darker stone; whether others were beyond the mansion in the extensive grounds we cannot say, neither what these represented. They were at a distance from the street, and were not recognizable, even by an art critic, in the scattered broken limbs, disfigured heads and torsos we found while visiting the partially demolished mansion in 1916, Art junk they surely were then, but not when selected by the discriminating owner a century before. But nothing is secure from modern vandalism, as witness the overturning of the statue on Cambridge common within a year, and of Sagamore John's monument nearer home. Not all Medford statuary was of marble, however. Colonel Royall indulged his aesthetic tastes away back in provincial days. A figure of the wing-footed messenger of the gods, carved from wood, and bearing the caduceus, surmo
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