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, 
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