Massachusetts Fire Houses

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Boston, Massachusetts
Engine 12
4th & K Streets



Another view of the 12's house.  20's vintage American LaFrance rigs are in service with the engine and truck.

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Chicopee, Massachusetts
Cabot Street Engine House

Those old stations with a 75 foot hose tower look spectacular!

Lowell, Massachusetts
A big house typical of what would be located in the central business district of a prosperous American town.

Neponset MA
This place looks as if it may actually be 2 buildings.

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Newburyport MA

Saxonville MA

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Grafton, Massachusetts operates this neat looking brick station.

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Attleboro Falls MA

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Dracut Center MA

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Apparently having a hose tower (and clock tower in this case) that was 75 or 100 feet high certainly wasn't unusual in Massachusetts as several of the stations pictured here were built that way.
Here is shown the headquarters station in Worcester.

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This is the Central Fire Station at Plymouth.

Hopedale has an impressive line up of apparatus housed at their station.

Another classic, brick fire station, this time at Southbridge.

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I really like the markings over the doors at this station in Malden!

This grand looking stone structure was the Central Fire Station at Lee.

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Chelsea, Massachusetts
R. S. Frost Hose Company No. 3

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Great looking arched windows on the front of this station for Hose #3 at Amesbury!

Reading, Massachusetts

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A ladder company is posing out on the ramp of this station in Somerville.

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Arlington F.D.'s drill tower is at the rear of this station.

This place is huge!  There must have been some other function for this building in addition to the fire station in Whitingsville.

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New Bedford, Massachusetts  Station #3
Kempton Street
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Old Malden station. Not a good photo of the station itself, but a beatiful station and and nice shot too! According to the postcard the date of the "picture" was anywhere from 1916-1930.

Just to add to the pic posted above near the top of page 2 - of the old Manchester station with Knox. This station had the living quarters on the third floor but there was NO fire pole in the station. I worked in Manchester in a newer station built in the same location, before moving on to Danvers.

A funny story told to me a few years ago. During the late 1960's or early 1970's Manchester had a large woods fire and required extensive mutual aid. Danvers was sent to cover the station on mutual aid (which was pretty unusual). The Danvers firefighters had just arrived at the station and were giving themselves a tour to get acquainted with the place expecting to be there for quite some time. They were on the third floor when they were sent to a report of a building on fire a few doors down from the fire station. Between the three firefighters, they opened all the doors from the third floor on down looking for the pole hole, there was none to be found! I can only imagine the angst, anguish and anxiety of trying all the doors in an unfamiliar station trying to get to your apparatus for a report of a building fire. As reported, there was a small fire that needed extinguishment, but nothing too major.