"Before this ugly edifice, and between it and……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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