Shot Here · STOP 03 · Beacon Hill
Fire historians say a TV private eye lived in this firehouse. MTV's Real World moved in too.
The Boston Fire Historical Society says this old Beacon Hill firehouse was the home of TV's Spenser in Spenser: For Hire, and MTV's The Real World moved in for its Boston season in 1997. Firefighters worked this corner from 1847. The building went up in the late 1940s, planned to fit bigger fire trucks, and it still stands at Mount Vernon and River Streets.
This is stop 3 of Shot Here. Walk it free in the app.
The plate
Collected on site
127 Mount Vernon Street, at the corner of River Street
Directions
From 1868 to 1873 the company here had a name as well as a number: Warren No. 10. Then Boston dropped the names. The address was 60 River Street until Engine 10 moved in on April 14, 1949.
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Sources (4)
- Engine 10, 127 Mt. Vernon St., Beacon HillBoston Fire Historical Society · accessed 2026-10-11
- Former Boston Fire Department Engine House No. 10 - Hill House // 1949Buildings of New England (blog) · 2026-01-08
- The Somerville Times Historical Fact of the Week - March 4Bob (Monty) Doherty, The Somerville Times · 2026-03-04
- Engine 10 / Tower Ladder 3 / Rescue 1 @ 125 Purchase St., DowntownBoston Fire Historical Society · n.d. (accessed 2026-10-11)