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north-western corner. It is believed that this is the 

 first instance in which statuary of a high order of excel- 

 lence has ever been placed in similar positions in this 

 country. The angles in the second and third stories 

 are supported by Doric pilasters, the faces of which are 

 cut in moulded panels. The facades on Bromfield 

 Street and Montgomery Place are similar in style to the 

 front, but much plainer, and are surmounted by a balus- 

 trade. The material is Concord white granite. 



On the 4th of February, 1865, Turner Sargent, H. 

 Hollis Hunnewell, Charles O. Whitmore, and Benjamin 

 P. Cheney, were appointed a committee for the pur- 

 pose of receiving donations for procuring and placing 

 upon the centre crowning tablet, and on the north and 

 south buttresses of the first story of the Tremont Street 

 fagade, three statues respectively of Ceres, Pomona, 

 and Flora ; and the committee were authorized, when 

 the donations were sufficient to cover the cost of the 

 statues, to cause the same to be executed. At the 

 meeting of the Society on the 7th of July, 1866, 

 the chairman of the committee reported, that, by the 

 spontaneous and noble generosity of his associates, three 

 colossal statues, one representing the Goddess of 

 Grain, one the Goddess of Fruits, and one the Goddess 

 of Flowers, modelled by Martin Milmore, had been 

 executed in granite, and placed in their proper positions 

 upon the building. 



The first or street story is divided into five stores, 

 two of which front on Tremont Street, and three on 

 Bromfield Street, two of the latter running through to 

 Montgomery Place, while in the rear of the third is a 

 staircase, which commences in the basement, and com- 

 municates with each story above, and with the loft, for 



