On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Kevin Daly wrote:

> I seem to recall the the Custom House in Boston was originally rather a
> small structure-- until they built a tower sticking right up out of the
> top of the thing.  Am I remembering correctly?

That's the way I remember it.  In this case, though, the original
structure -- a long, narrow classical temple style building with porticos
at the ends -- occupies all of the ground and is visually dominant from
the street.  The circa-1910-ish tower only occupies the middle third or so
of the roof, like a rider perched on a horse.

Of course, it's been years since I last saw the thing, so I could be
remembering it wrong.

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