Show IS ONLY U. U S. S SKYSCRAPER X New Custom house Towers s 0 Feet Above Street The Tho first government skyscraper has recently been completed and stands In tho heart of historic Boston It Is feet high two thirty two thirty stories and stories and was waR build on top of or the Old Stone Stono Fort i Boston's Boton's cu custom tom house since 1849 1840 In 1918 Boston Doston became too big for tor Its custom house Congress appropriated for a new site but no suitable location could be bought for tor that price It was then decided to build a a. now custom house on the old site retaining the Old Stone Fort as 18 an Integral part of ot the structure because of Its material as stop as historical and sentimental sentimental sentimental sen sen- value The Tho skyscraper skyscraper- Is la built of ot Cape Ann granite and coot coat a as aM against had a new ne site be ben been n selected elected The tow totter r proper Is ent 80 seventy bI by by eighty In size It rests on 3 vo concrete concrete con con- crete caissons which were eur sunk urk a hundred hundred hun hun- dred foot feet below the street were In order to get a n proper bearing burinI for the great reat weight The IH is absolutely fireproof fireproof fire fire- proof even en the furniture being or ot steel el as as ar are arl the Interior trimmings Boston has hns a city ordinance regulatIng regulating ing tho the sky line for Cor buildings at 1215 feet but th the United States Staten government g Is under no building re restrictions The clock face tace Is of ot marble twenty twenty- one feet Ceet In diameter and 2nd can be seen lIeen at sea ca for Cor nearly fUt fifty miles The Tho clock fare face takes up two stories and the mechanism one etor story The Tho minute hand handIs Is la eleven and one half feet long Ions An observation balcony Is at tho the twenty twenty- fifth floor At the tho time of the Boston Doston tea ten party rt Boston harbor came camo to what Is now the door of ot the tho custom house Hall stands not far tar to tho the left lett of or tho the skyscraper |