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[Meeting house (Hollis Street, Boston, Mass.). Plan and perspective] – Vintage Photo Print

[Meeting house (Hollis Street, Boston, Mass.). Plan and perspective], [between 1803 and 1827] — historic drawing
[Meeting house (Hollis Street, Boston, Mass.). Plan and perspective], [between 1803 and 1827]. Historic drawing from the Boston National Historic Park collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This pair of ink, wash, and graphite drawings shows the Meeting House on Hollis Street in Boston, with a ground plan on one side and an east elevation on the other. The title comes from an inscription on page eight of a sketchbook associated with the Bulfinch name, but the drawing has not been firmly attributed to Charles Bulfinch, so the link should be read as a probable one. Its date falls somewhere between 1803 and 1827, a period when Boston's Congregational meeting houses were both places of worship and important civic landmarks. Comparing the plan with the elevation shows how an early republican architect worked out a building's floor arrangement and its outward appearance together.

Created / published[between 1803 and 1827]
Medium2 drawings (1 sheet) : ink, wash, and graphite.
Genre1997."
NotesInscription on page eight of Bulfinch Sketch Book: Ground plat & East view of the Meeting house in Hollis Street Boston." In: The Bulfinch sketchbook. Title devised by Library staff. Drawing has not been definitively attributed to Bulfinch
SubjectsHollis Street Church (Boston, Mass.)--1800-1830. Churches--Massachusetts--Boston--1800-1830.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,051 × 1,458 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175935

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