- 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.
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