The 1852 Hunt · STOP 11 · Financial District
Since 1989, Engine 10, Tower Ladder 3 and Rescue 1 have run out of the base of a thirty-story tower.
Since 1989 an engine, a tower ladder and a rescue company have run out of the bottom of a thirty-story office tower near the Greenway, with the bay doors set right into its base. Pull a box downtown and the Fire Alarm Office sends companies like these. The doors open fast and don't wait. Watch from across the street.
This is stop 11 of The 1852 Hunt. Walk it free in the app.
The plate
Firehouse in a Tower
Collected on site
Purchase Street at Oliver Street (firehouse at 125 Purchase Street)
Directions
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Engine 10 ran out of 127 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill from 1862 until 1982.
More footnotes on the story card, in the app.
Near South Station · Near Aquarium
Sources (6)
- Engine 10 / Tower Ladder 3 / Rescue 1 @ 125 Purchase St., DowntownBoston Fire Historical Society · n.d.
- Alarm Club - The Record, Build spec and Dorchester Reporter call prep (internal source-of-truth pages)Alarm Club / Third Polar Arch · Sept-Oct 2026
- A Complete History of the Boston Fire Department, including the Fire-Alarm Service and the Protective Department, from 1630 to 1888Arthur Wellington Brayley (Boston: John P. Dale & Co.) · 1889
- Milestones: Electric Fire Alarm System, 1852IEEE / Engineering and Technology History Wiki · Dedicated Oct 1 2004
- HardwareBoston Fire Historical Society · n.d.
- Report of the Commissioners appointed to investigate the cause and management of the Great Fire in BostonCity of Boston (Rockwell & Churchill) · 1873