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Show STATE HOUSE IS DWARFED. Immense Sskscrapers on All Sides tf Boston Building. WJien tho prcsont old Boston stato house was erected In 1748 It was by far tho most pretentious public, building build-ing In tho province, and Its cupola rose high aboro all surrounding build-in build-in ss. Ono hundrod and fifty-six years later tho former pretentious stato houso appears dwarfed and insignificant insignifi-cant between tho skyscrapers which surround it. Not loss than flvo scyscrapcrs. four of which aio 125 foot high, and ono of which Is 18C feet high, front on tho streets closo by, and It Is not necessary neces-sary to ascend very far In any of theso In order to obtain a position from which to look down upon tho very tiptop of tho wcathcrvnno surmounting sur-mounting tho cupola of tho architectural architec-tural relic. Not a building Is now standing In tho Immediate vicinity of tho old stato houso that was In placo when tho pooplo of Boston rebuilt their town house, which tho year beforo had been ruined by Arc. |