Identifier: newbedfordmassac00peas (find matches)
Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 New Bedford Board of Trade Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
Subjects: Industries -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (New Bedford, Mass.) : Published by order of the Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ices for salaries and other e.\()enses. Within this elegant building, on a large marble tablet, we roadthis noble testimony : •^ This tablet coiinneiiioriiUs the enlighteiuil liberality ol Sylvia Ami Howland,who bestowed upon the city of Xew Bedford the sum of two liimdrcil tliousaiid dol-lars; one Imiidred thousand to aid in supplyin*; the eity with pun water: and onehundred tliousand as a fund for the promotion of liberal education l)y the enlariie-nipnt of the Free Pu))lic Fabrary, and l)y (extending to the children and yonib id tbecity tbe means of a wider and more o;enerous culluic She died in 1865. In one of the ante-rooms are a number ol piiotographs ol thehandsome residences of the city and also several portraits, amongthem a rude unfinished picture of William Rotch, to whom a largeshare of New Bedfords business prosperity is due, by an artist namedHuckley. In the main library room hang pt)rtraits of George How-land, Jr., by Wilson, and of James B. Congdon by Eaton. There
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NORTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. SEEING THE SIGHTS. 85 are also engravings from some of the celebrated paintings of theYosemite, by Albert Bierstadt, who was once a photographer inNew Bedford. The library occupies the second floor of the building. On thefirst floor are the offices of the mayor, city clerk, city treasurer, cityauditor, superintendent of streets, and board of assessors. The passenger station of the Old Colony railroad, situated eastof Acushnet avenue, between Willis and Pearl streets, is one of theattractive buildings of the cit). Its architecture is Romanesque.The building is 159.3 by 37.8 feet in area, with walls of red facebrick and trimmings of brown kibbe, rock-faced with round crandledcorners, and the roofs are covered with copper-green slate. Thefoundation is built on piles and large square blocks of granite laid incement mortar. The river is on the east and there is a pretty viewof Oxford village opposite. On the west is a large and handsomelawn, bordered \\ith tree

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