Boston firehouses:
Bowdoin Square...opened in Nov 1930 and home to
Engine Co. 4, Engine Co. 6, Ladder Co. 24, Rescue Co. 3, Water Tower 1,
Chief of District 4...later Ladder Co. 1 and Engine Co. 10 while their
firehouses were being built..closed 1963 to make way for the Goverment
Center and the people who ordered that this firehouse should be closed
should be shot..but most of them are already dead.....
Fort Hill Square, home of Engine Co. 25 and Ladder Co. 8..also at
times Rescue Co. 1 and Water Tower 1 and Deputy Chief of Division
1....opened 1874 and colsed in 1952......
Engine Co. 42 and Chemical Co 5 later Ladder Co. 30, Egleston
Square, Roxbury....closed early 1950's..under the EL structure...the EL
is gone and so is the firehouse..
Engine Co. 21..641 Columbia Road..Dorchester..opened 1926 and still
in service..
Engine Co. 37 and Chemical Co. 3..Longwood and Brookline Ave.,
Roxbury...opened 1890--1933, also home later to Ladder Co. 26
Engine Co. 13..Cabot Street, Roxbury..opened 1864 and closed in
1938...long gone...
Ladder Co. 4...198 Dudley Street, Roxbury..build for Engine Co. 12
but Ladder Co. 4 moved here to be closer to central Roxbury...
Engine Co. 10...River and Mt. Vernon Streets, bottom of Beacon
Hill...1864 to 1946....new house built on same spot but that has now
been abandoned...
Ladder Co. 4...very old house on Eustis Street, Roxbury...former
Roxbury Fire Department house but it is still standing...Chemical Co. 10
als responded from this house....closed many years ago....