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few ^Qet, and refitted. In it the criminal courts are 

 held ; there too are the offices of the court of probate 

 and insolvency. 



The New Court House w^as built in 1845 of Quincy 

 granite, at a cost of about one hundred thousand 

 dollars. In it the civil terms of the courts are held, 

 with numerous ante-rooms for the jurors and for con- 

 sultation. The lower floor is occupied by the office of 

 the register of deeds, and by the clerk's and treasurer's 

 offices. 



Close neighbor to the court houses is the building 

 containing the rooms of the American Antiquarian 

 Society, one of the leading learned bodies of our 

 country. It was founded in 1812. It possesses a 

 very valuable library, especially rich on subjects of 

 local interest to Americans. The newspapers filed here 

 include over four thousand volumes, beginning with 

 the Boston News Letter of 1804, and closing with the 

 great journals of to-day. This same society also 

 possesses a very interesting collection of pre-historic 

 American relics. 



In Lincoln Square stands the old Salisbury man- 

 sion, an interesting specimen of a colonial house, 

 which has been standing a century or so, since the 

 time when those substantial buildings, with their wide 

 halls, high ceilings, and strong walls, were built on 

 honor. There it has stood in its' dignity, more 

 flimsy, more showy architecture springing up around 

 it, until now the fin de siecle eye discovers that 

 nothing is more to be desired than one of these same 

 sturdv old colonial houses. 



Main street contains manv churches. On it is the 

 large, ugly-looking, but justly celebrated, Clark Uni- 



