Fort Hill Square Fire Station (former) Repairs – Boston MA

City:
Boston, MA

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Firehouses

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) laborers repaired Boston’s old Fort Hill Fire Station during the mid-1930s. The building was torn down in 1952 to make way for construction of the since-buried downtown freeway.

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Dec. 2, 1936 (pg. 3). https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit https://bostonfirehistory.org/firehouses/former-firehouses-non-extant/engine-25ladder-8rescue-1-fort-hill-sq-downtown/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 23, 2017.

Location Info


High St. and Oliver St.
Boston, MA

Location notes: Approx. location

Coordinates: 42.356105, -71.052887

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