Continuing on down Newbury Street, we come to Berkeley Street, on the corner of which stands
Museum of Natural History
The building is full of New England economic, geological, and special mineral collections, mammals, birds, fishes, fossils, plants, marine invertebrates, and insects beautifully mounted. The building is open to the public free of charge daily from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and on Sundays from 1 to 4:30 p. m.
Leaving the Museum of Natural History, turn right at Boylston Street and proceed to
Copley Square
This is architecturally considered one of the finest municipal squares in the country, if not in the world. On your left is Boston’s famous
Trinity Church
The facade of this church is one of the richest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in the city. Mr. H. H. Richardson was the architect. Interior decorative work by John LaFarge. St. Gaudens’ statue of Phillips Brooks is on the Huntington Avenue side. In the cloister are stones from old St. Botolph’s Church in Boston, England. Bishop Brooks was rector of Trinity from 1869 to 1891.
To the left of the church and across St. James Avenue is the