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  twentythree
  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,
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