Chapter VI THIRD BOSTON OBJECT LESSON CORNHILL AND THE SINGLE TAX* Map OF block bounded BY CORNHILL, brattle street, scollay square, AND ADAMS SQUARE. Total number of square feet ...... 21,419 Number of lots 2 3 Average number of square feet to each lot «... 93 1 Total frontage on Cornhill, in feet . • -> • 45° Average frontage per lot, in feet . 20 Average width of block, in feet ...»•• 45 Width of Cornhill, in feet 4^ Width of Brattle Street, in feet 5° Width of subway underneath . • » . • 2 4 Land, assessed value .,••••• $1,220,700 Buildings, assessed value $101,800 Land, assessed value, per foot ..*••• $57 Buildings, assessed value, per foot . $5 Between Cornhill and Brattle Street, Boston, and lacing upon both streets, are found to-day twenty- three houses built by Uriah Getting for the Cornhill * This chapter is adapted from an address at a banquet given by the Massachusetts Single Tax League to members of the Boston Merchants’ Association in the Hotel Brunswick, October 22, igol, 79