Located on the south side of Boylston St. east of Reservoir Rd. It opened in January 1891 and was eventually replaced by the current Station 4 located across the street at 827 Boylston St. To the left is 794 Boylston St., still standing.
This building is the second of two iterations which have presented some identification challenges. First, the fire house that was built two years later, in 1893, on Devotion St. had a virtually identical front façade and doors and the two have been conflated in publication. Second, photos after 1900 show a very different-looking building. But a closer look reveals that it’s the same building with several new feet added at the bottom and totally different doors added. This was because Boylston St. was lowered six feet for the trolley installation in 1900.

(ID) 042
(Slide ID) P 25-24
incl. Streets

William Robert Murphy Collection