BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT FIRE ALARM BOX LOCATIONS
January 1, 1900 HENRY S. RUSSELL Fire Commissioner
Lewis P. Webber Chief of Department
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Commercial and Foster Sts Clark and Hanover Streets Cooper and Endicott Streets Hanover and Parmenter Streets Commercial St at Union Wharf Richmond and Commercial Streets North Market Street and Merchants Row Hanover and Endicott Streets Brattle Street, opp. Quincy House Charlestown Street near Cross
21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Sudbury and Hawkins Streets Bowdoin Square Cambridge and North Russell Streets Chemical House 11, Grove Street Cambridge and Charles Streets Charles and Mt. Vernon Streets Clinton Street, opp. Blackstone Beacon Street, opp. Spruce
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
Beacon Street, opp. Beaver Pinckney and Anderson Streets Mt. Vernon Street, opp. Hancock Myrtle and Joy Streets Tremont and School Streets State Street, nw cor. Old State House India and Central Streets Atlantic Avenue and Long Wharf Engine House 26, Mason Street
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
Washington and Milk Streets Tremont and Winter Streets Washington and West Streets High Street and High St. Place Federal and Franklin Streets Oliver and Milk Streets Engine House 25, Fort Hill Square Dewey Square Summer and Hawley Streets
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
Purchase and Pearl Streets Summer and Lincoln Streets Washington and Boylston Streets Beach and Oxford Streets Tremont Street and Van Rensselaer Place Kneeland and South Streets Hudson and Oak Streets Dorchester Avenue near Draw Bridge South and East Streets
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61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
Tremont Street, nr. Warrenton Street Providence Street, cor. Park Square Berkeley and Marlboro Streets Washington and Motte Street Albany and Way Streets Compton and Emerald Streets Washington and Hollis Streets Harrison Avenue and Wareham Street Engine House 3, Harrison Avenue, cor. Bristol
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
Berkeley and Tremont Streets Washington and Compton Streets Shawmut Avenue and Waltham Street East Dedham Street , opp. Police Station 5 Chemical House 4, Shawmut Avenue Tremont Street, cor. West Rutland Square Albany and East Dedham Streets South City Stables, Albany Street Exeter Street and Commonwealth Avenue
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89
West Canton and Appleton Streets Engine House 23, Northampton Street Tremont and Northampton Streets Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue Tremont and Paul Streets East Concord and Washington Streets Lenox Street and Shawmut Avenue Columbus Avenue and West Newton Street Boylston and Clarendon Streets
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues Huntington Avenue and Irvington Streets Dartmouth and Tremont Streets Dartmouth Street, near Harwich Arlington and Boylston Streets Columbus Avenue and Berkeley Street Marlboro and Gloucester Streets Columbus and Massachusetts Avenues Hereford and Newbury Streets
112 113 114 115 116 118 119
Dorchester Avenue and Swan Street West First and B Streets West Second and D Streets Old Colony R.R. Machine Shop Dover and Albany Streets Burnham's Wharf, Congress Street Shed No. 4, NY, NH & H RR Freight Yard
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West First and A Streets Dorchester and Jenkins Streets Broadway and Dorchester Avenue Broadway and C Street, Police Station 6 Dorchester Avenue and Dorr Street E Street near West Broadway West Ninth and E Streets Dorchester Avenue nr Boston Street West Sixth and B Streets
131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139
East Eighth and G Streets Dorchester and East Fourth Streets Mercer and East Ninth Streets West Fifth and D Streets East Eighth and K Streets East First and K Streets East Fourth Street, between K and L House of Correction gate East Second and H Streets
141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149
Mt. Washington Avenue and Granite Street West First Street, between E and F Dorchester and Seventh Streets East Broadway and P Street Engine House 2, East Fourth and O Streets East Seventh and N Streets East Sixth and G Streets A and Congress Streets East End, NY, NH & H R.R. Freight Sheds near docks
151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159
East Fourth and H Streets Standard Sugar Refinery East First and P Streets East Eighth near M Street East Broadway and Emerson Street Independence Square West Fifth and F Streets Telegraph and Gates Streets East Sixth near Q Streets
161 162 163 164 165 168 169
Carney Hospital A Street, near Boston Wharf Co. office Boston Electric Light Station (inside) L and East First Streets Boston Electric Light Station (outside) L and East First Streets Headhouse, Marine Park East Broadway and K Streets West Fifth and D Streets
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West Third and B Streets
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172 173 175 176 177 178 179
West Third and C Streets Old Parkman School, Silver Street West Broadway near Dorchester Street Dorchester Street near West Seventh Dorchester and Rogers Streets School House, East Fourth Street School House, 347 Dorchester Street
181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188
East Sixth and I Streets East Fifth and L Streets School House, East Fifth and H Streets Parkman School, Broadway Pumping Station, Old Harbor Point Dorchester Avenue and Locust Street Boston and Rawson Streets Boston and Mt. Vernon Streets
191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199
Dorchester Avenue and East Cottage Street Dorchester Avenue and Savin Hill Avenue Belfort and Sagamore Streets Savin Hill Avenue near R.R. Bridge Savin Hill Avenue and Grampian Way Junction Massachusetts Avenue, Boston and Cottage Streets Pleasant and Stoughton Streets School House, Pleasant Street Upham's Corner
211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219
Williams Street, opp. Williams Terrace Baseball Grounds Hampden Street and Norfolk Avenue Washington and Thorndike Streets Tremont and Cabot Streets Ruggles and Parker Streets Ruggles and Tremont Streets Washington and Palmer Streets Longwood and Huntington Avenues
221 223 224 225 226 227 228 229
Linden Park and Hampshire Streets Heath Street, near American Brewing Co. Albany and Hunneman Streets Norfolk Avenue and Magazine Streets Dennis and Stafford Streets N. E. Piano Co., George Street N. E. Hospital, Dimock Street Tremont Street, opp. Mission Church
231 232 233 234
Washington and Eustis Streets Eustis and Dearborn Streets George and Langdon Streets Engine House 12, Dudley Street
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235 236 237 238 239
Dudley and Winslow Streets Engine House 13, Cabot and Whittier Streets Dudley and Putnam Streets Swett Street near Old Hospital Shawmut Avenue near Roxbury Street
241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249
Warren Street and Rockville Park Blue Hill Avenue and Clifford Street Engine House 14, Centre Street Boston Elevated R.R. Co., Carhouse, Bartlett Street Police Station No. 10, Columbus Avenue Engine House 37, Longwood Avenue Huntington Avenue and Francis Street Rogers Avenue, opp. Bay View Place Burkhardt’s Brewery, Parker Street
251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259
Highland and Cedar Streets Washington Street, opp. Dale Cedar Street, opp. Hawthorne Columbus Avenue and New Heath Street Parker Hill Avenue, opp. Sanitarium Heath Street, near School House Engine House 24, Warren and Quincy Streets Huntington Avenue and Heath Street Centre Street near Parker
261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269
Washington and Dimock Streets Lodge of Marcella Street Home Center and Day Streets Walnut Avenue and Munroe Street Warren and Dale Streets Walnut Avenue and Dale Street Parker and Alleghany Streets Fairland Street, near Moreland Alpine and Regent Streets
271 272 273 274 276 277 278 279
Dennison Mfg. Co., Dale Street Crawford Street and Elm Hill Avenue Blue Hill Avenue, near Columbia Road Quincy and Dacia Streets Washington and Dudley Streets City Stables, Highland Street Walnut Avenue and Walnut Park Home for Aged Women, Copeland Street
281 283 284
Howard Watch Co., Hampden Street Highland Spring Brewery, Terrace Street House of the Good Shepherd, Huntington Avenue
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285 286 287 288 289
Calumet Street, near Maple Wayne Street, near Maple Humboldt Avenue and Townsend Street Gay Head and Round Hill Streets Humboldt Avenue and Homestead Street
291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299
Dearborn School, Dearborn Place Dillaway School, Kenilsworth Street Dudley School, Dudley Street George Street School Lewis School, Dale and Sherman Streets George Putnam School, Egleston Square Hugh O’Brien School, Dudley and Langdon Streets Roxbury High School, Warren and Montrose Streets Boston Belting Co., Linden and Park Streets
311 312 314 315 316 317 318 319
Kemble Street, near Gerard Albany and Hampden Streets Blue Hill Avenue and Intervale Street Dudley Street, near Cottage Blue Hill Avenue Car Station Bird and Ceylon Streets Dudley and Clifton Streets Norfolk Avenue at R.R. Bridge
322 324
Winthrop and Greenville Streets Olney and Bowdoin Streets
331 332 334 335 336 337 338 339
Hancock and Trull Streets Cushing Avenue and Salcombe Street June, Quincy and Bellevue Streets Christopher Gibson School, Mt. Bowdoin Station Washington Street near Mt. Bowdoin Station Howard Avenue and Sargent Street Everett Avenue opp. St. Mary’s Infant Asylum Geneva Avenue and Olney Street
342 348
St. Mary’s Infant Asylum, Jones Hill Lauriat Avenue and Carlos Street
352 353 356 357 358 359
Oakland and Rosewood Streets Engine House 19, Norfolk Street Tonawanda and Greenbrier Streets Harvard and Washington Streets Pierce Farm Austin Farm
361 362 363
Harvard Street and Blue Hill Avenue Walk Hill and Back Streets Wheatland Avenue and Kilton Streets
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Washington Street near Coffee Court Canterbury Street, Small-Pox Hospital Blue Hill Avenue and Oakland Street Blue Hill Avenue and Walk Hill Street
374 375 376 377
Glenway and Harvard Streets Bernard and Kerwin Streets Erie and Elmo Streets Waterlow and Elmont Streets
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Virginia Street and Cedar Place
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Tileston School, Mattapan
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Rutherford Avenue and Dunstable Street
421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429
City Square foot of Main Street Waverly House, City Square Henley Place and Chelsea Street Junction Bunker Hill, Tufts and Vine Streets Concord and Bunker Hill Streets Monument Square and Monument Court Chelsea Street near Prospect Chelsea Street near Bainbridge Chelsea Bridge near Grain Elevator
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Bunker Hill and Sackville Streets Walker and Russell Streets Medford Street (Waterman’s Mill) Bunker Hill and Auburn Streets
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Engine House 27, Elm Street Navy Yard, Commodore’s Office Hoosac Tunnel Elevator Dock North Station, Causeway and Nashua Streets North Station, Lowell and Brighton Streets North Station, Outward Baggage Room Navy Yard, Water Street Gate Navy Yard Captain’s House
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Medford and Tufts Streets No. 305 Medford Street Medford Street junction Bunker Hill Alford Street near Arlington Avenue Dorrance Street and Arlington Avenue Charlestown Almshouse Perkins Street opp. Parker Rutherford Avenue near R.R. Crossing Junction Rutherford Avenue, Middlesex and Essex Streets
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Main Street opp. Haverhill Ladder House 9, Main Street Main Street near Baldwin Cambridge and Spice Streets Cambridge and Parker Streets Old City Hall
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Bunker Hill School, Baldwin Street Warren School , Summer Street Prescott School , Elm Street Primary School, Bunker Hill Street Harvard School, Devens Street Common Street School, Winthrop Square
481 482 484 486 488
Warren Avenue opp. Fitchburg R.R. Yard Rutherford Avenue and Chapman Street Main Street junction Harvard Lynde and Union Streets Main and Miller Streets
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Front Street, foot of Arrow (Freight House) Austin Street near R.R. Crossing Old Prison Yard
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Sturtevant Blower Works, Jamaica Plain Centre Street opp. Spring Park Avenue Boylston Street R.R. Station Engine House 42 Brookside Avenue and Cornwall Street Washington Street near Burnett Harris Avenue and Alveston Street Chestnut Avenue and Chestnut Square Washington Street near Green
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J.P. R.R. Station Chestnut Avenue opp. Forbes Street Engine House 28, Center Street Prince and Perkins Streets Pond Street near Orchard May and Centre Streets South and Keyes Streets Washington Street opposite Forest Hills Station Forest Hills Avenue and Glenway Street Morton and Forest Hills Street Canterbury Street School House Forest Hills Cemetery Hyde Park Avenue near Mt. Hope R.R. Station Beech and Poplar Streets Ashland and Sheldon Streets Engine House 45, Roslindale
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Washington and Breen Streets Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street
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Canterbury and Berry Streets Centre Street near Central R.R. Station Centre and LaGrange Streets Centre Street near Allandale Road Centre Street opposite Eliot Spring and Gardner Streets Washington and Grove Streets Lamartine Street and Clark Place Call Street and Carolina Avenue
551 552 553 554 556 557 558 559
Park and Oriole Streets Fairview and South Streets Centre Street, opposite Nervine Hospital Walter and Ashfield Streets Pond and Rockwood Streets Rock View Street and Parley Avenue Perkins Street, near Jamaicaway Lamartine Street near Hoffman
561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569
Corey ands Pomfret Streets Center Street near Corey Ivory and Temple Streets Amory and Dimock Streets Spring and Gould Streets Baker Streets and Baker Place Baker Street near Railroad Bridge Brandon Street and Belgrade Avenue Lucretia Crocker School, Bickford Street
571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579
Centre and Mozart Streets Elm and Everett Streets Agassiz School, Brewer Street Charles Sumner School, Ashland Street Mt. Vernon School, Mt. Vernon Street Bowditch School, Green Street Poplar and Canterbury Streets Washington and Norfolk Streets LaGrange Street near Swallow
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Metropolitan Avenue and Summit Street Walk Hill Street and Hyde Park Avenue Centre and Farquhar Streets Newburg and Beech Streets
612 613
Everett and Jeffries Streets Marginal Street opposite Simpson’s Dock
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Maverick Street Forge Works Sumner and Lamson Streets Grand Junction Yard North Elevator Grand Junction Freight Office, Marginal Street near Cottage Pier 1, Grand Junction Yard
621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629
Everett and Cottage Streets Sumner and Orleans Streets B & M R.R. Repair Shop, Marginal Street Cunard Wharf (private) Ferry House (South) Webster and Lewis Streets, Sugar Refinery Meridian Street, near Maverick Square Sumner Street, near Paris Atlantic Works, Border Street
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Sumner and Border Streets Decatur and Liverpool Streets Gove and Paris Streets Bennington Street at Central Square Chelsea and Marion Streets Porter and Paris Streets Princeton and Meridian Streets Dyewood Co., Wharf, Border Street Marion and Bennington Streets
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Engine House 5, Marion Street Brooks and Saratoga Streets Putnam and Lexington Streets White and Eutaw Streets Meridian and Falcon Streets Pottery Works, 146 Condor Street Glendon and East Eagle Streets
651 654 655 657
Chemical Engine 7 House, Chelsea Street Chelsea and Curtis Streets Chelsea Street opp. Maverick Oil Works Pipe Works, Saratoga and Swift Streets
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Engine House 11, Saratoga and Byron Streets Byron and Coleridge Streets
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Leyden and Breeds Streets Leyden and Walley Streets Winthrop Junction
681 682 684 685
Adams School, Sumner Street Paris and Gove Streets Emerson School, Prescott Street Meridian and Paris Streets
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Lyman School, Paris Street Noble School, Princeton Street Deer Island
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Tappan School, Lexington Street Call on Chelsea
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Boston Elevated R’way Yard, Harrison Avenue City Hospital South Department, City Hospital Mass. Homeopathic Hospital, E. Concord Street Mechanics Fair Bldg., Huntington Avenue Boston Globe Pemberton Square Young’s Hotel, Court Avenue West End Quincy Market
721 City Hall 722 Hotel Touraine 724 Massachusetts General Hospital 725 Home of Aged Women, Revere Street 726 443 Albany Street 727 Lowney’s Confectionery Works, Commercial Street opp. Henchman 728 A. Shuman’s, 440 Washington Street 729 Parker House 731 732 733 735 737 738 739
Howard Athenaeum Boston Museum Tremont Theatre Keith’s Theatre Hollis Street Theatre Grand Opera House Columbia Theatre
741 742 744 745 746 747 748 749
Boston Theatre Music Hall Clark’s Hotel R.H. White & Co.’s store Jordan, Marsh & Co.’s store Anderson and Pinckney Streets Phillips School, Anderson Street Bowdoin School, Myrtle Street
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Paul Revere School, Prince Street Hancock School, Parmenter Street Eliot School, North Bennett Street South Union Station, near Summer Street entrance Emerson School, Poplar Street Parkman and Blossom Streets
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(Duplicate) Well’s School, Blossom Street South Union Station, Express building near Beach Street Power House, Dorchester Avenue
761 762 764 766 767 768 769
Dwight School, West Springfield Street Home for Aged Men, West Springfield Street Horace Mann School, Newbury Street near Exeter Castle Square Theatre New Grand Theatre Cook School, Groton Street N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R. Providence Division Freight
772 773 774 775 776 778 779
Rice School, Dartmouth Street N.E. Conservatory Girl’s High School, West Newton Street Rice Primary School, Concord Street Franklin School, Waltham Street Massachusetts and Westland Avenues Children’s Hospital, Huntington Avenue
781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789
Everett School, Northampton Street Hyde School, Hammond Street Sherwin School, Madison Square Yeoman School, Yeoman Street Kindergarten School, Kenilworth Street Phillips Street School Martin School, Huntington Avenue Tremont Street, near Terrace Savannah S.S. Co., Lewis Wharf
791 792 793 794 795 797 799
Battery Wharf, North Ferry Metropolitan S.S. Co., India Wharf Thompson’s Spa, 219 Washington Street Electric Light Station, Gilbert Place Bowdoin Square Theatre Fobes, Hayward & Co., Chardon Street Boston Herald
811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819
Beacon Street, near Mountfort Commonwealth Avenue and Deerfield Street Parker Street, near Riding Club Building Brighton Avenue and Chester Street Cambridge Street and Harvard Avenue B. & A. R.R. Repair Shop Cambridge Street near North Harvard Commonwealth Avenue, Cottage Farm Station Western Avenue opp. Babcock’s Works
821 822
Cambridge Street, Brookline Gas Co.’s Works North Harvard Street near Cambridge Bridge
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823 824 825 827 828 829
North Harvard Street, junction Franklin Franklin and Aldie Streets Everett and Holton Streets North Beacon Street and Union Square St. Joseph’s Academy, Cambridge Street Allston Street and Allston Square
832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839
Washington Street opp. Sharon Washington Street near Commonwealth Avenue Murdock Street near Elmira Cambridge and Sparhawk Streets High School, Cambridge Street North Beacon and Herrick Streets Sewall & Day Cordage Co., Western Avenue Engine House 34, Western Avenue
841 842 843 844 845 847 849
Abbatoir B. & A. R.R. Stock Yards Market and North Beacon Streets Lincoln Street near Market North Beacon Street near B. & A. R.R. Bridge Parsons and Arlington Streets Brooks Street opp. Newton
852 853 854 856 857
Foster Street opp. 172 Washington Street opp. Oakland Engine House 29, Chestnut Hill Avenue Sutherland and Argyle Roads Chestnut Hill Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue
861 862 863 864 865
Lake and Kendrick Streets Kendrick Street opp. ice house Lake Street and Appleton Road St. John Seminary, North Building St. John Seminary, South Building
871 872 873 874 914 915 917 919
Oak Square Allston School, Cambridge Street Bennett School, Chestnut Hill Avenue Bennett Branch School, Winship Place Old Mather School House Engine House 17, Meetinghouse Hill Glover’s Corner McNeil’s Mills, Freeport
921 922 925 927 928
Freeport and Beach Streets Field’s Corner Westville Street and Geneva Avenue Litho. Works, Clayton Street Mill and Ashland Streets
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Freeport and Preston Streets
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Adams Street junction Neponset Avenue Dorchester Avenue and Lonsdale Street Dorchester Avenue near Park Street Park Street R.R. Crossing School House, Dorchester Avenue and Gibson Street
943 944 945 948
School House, Adams and Mill Streets Adams and Rosemont Streets Ashmont and Adams Streets Neponset Avenue and Boutwell Street
953 956
School House, Dorchester Avenue and Centre Street Dorchester Avenue and Centre Street
961 962 964 965 966 967 968 969
Allston and Mather Streets Dorchester Avenue and Ashmont Street Carruth and New Minot Streets Dorchester Avenue and Codman Street Washington Street near Ruggles Place Home for Incurables, Dorchester Avenue and Codman Street Richmond and Adams Streets Convalescents Home, Dorchester Avenue near Richmond Street
971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979
Boston Elevated R’way Car Sheds, Washington near Ashmont Sts Washington Street and Dorchester Avenue Medway and Branch Streets Baker’s Chocolate Works, Milton Morton and Stanford Streets School House, River Street near Washington River Street near Idaho Engine House 16, Temple Street River Street near residence of J. Conness
981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988 989
Putnam Nail Works, Port Norfolk Water and Taylor Streets Old Minot School House, Walnut Street Neponset Avenue near Walnut Street Neponset Avenue and Tolman Streets School House, Neponset Avenue near Minot Street Chickatawbut and Plain Streets Washington and Roslin Streets Adams Street and Granite Avenue
991 992 993 994 995
Norfolk and Whitman Streets Washington and Norfolk Streets Washington and Fuller Streets Rockwell Street and Milton Avenue Norfolk Street and Thetford Avenue
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Norfolk and Morton Streets Evans and Corbet Streets
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