Off the Bricks

The 1852 Hunt · STOP 13 · Fort Point

Arthur Fiedler, who conducted the Boston Pops, was a noted fire buff, and this firehouse was once a museum named for him.

This brick firehouse in Fort Point once held the only double engine company in Boston Fire Department history: two engines, one captain, never sent out together. Later it was a museum named for Arthur Fiedler, the Boston Pops conductor, who was a fire buff. It's still a fire museum. Cross the Congress Street bridge and look for the brick firehouse on the corner.

This is stop 13 of The 1852 Hunt. Walk it free in the app.

The plate

The Double Company

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Congress Street at A Street; museum at 344 Congress St, corner of Farnsworth St
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Ladder 18 moved in on November 17, 1953, from its old house at 9 Pittsburgh Street - about fifty yards away.

More footnotes on the story card, in the app.

Fire alarm box, Architecture, Good with kids, Music

Near South Station

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