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The Hotel Vendome fire in the United States was the worst firefighting tragedy in Boston history. Nine firefighters were killed during the final stages of extinguishing a fire on June 17, 1972. The Hotel Vendome was on the southwest corner of the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street, in the Back Bay area of Boston.
The Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial commemorates victims of the Hotel Vendome fire. It is installed along Boston 's Commonwealth Avenue Mall , in the U.S. state of Massachusetts . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The work was designed by the artist Ted Clausen and landscape architect Peter White. [ 3 ]
In March 1982, a fire broke out in the Westchase Hilton Hotel in Houston, Texas. [1] 12 people died in the hotel, which was opened in 1980. A report by the National Fire Protection Association identified one reason for the deaths as inadequate escape routes: the stairways were located at the end of the corridor, so that as the hallways filled ...
The Hilton Boston Park Plaza is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, opened on March 10, 1927. [3] It was built by hotelier E.M. Statler as part of his Statler Hotels chain. A prototype of the grand American hotel, it was called a "city within a city" and also contains an adjoining office building. It was the first hotel in ...
1693 Boston yellow fever epidemic Disease 3,100+ Boston [3] 1911 1911 Eastern North America heat wave: Weather 1,110 Statewide [4] 1633 Massachusetts smallpox epidemic: Disease 1,000 Statewide [5] 1721 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak: Disease 844 Boston [6] 1677 1677–1678 Boston smallpox epidemic Disease 750–1,000 Boston [7] 1942 Cocoanut ...
The Hotel Aubry (1883, demolished 1959) 149 Newbury Street, Boston, MA (W.G. Preston & Albert C. Fernald) Lincoln Public Library [ 34 ] ( 1884 , extant, with subsequent additions by others) 3 Bedford Road Lincoln, MA
Around 6:45 pm, an intense explosion occurred on Boylston Street between Washington and Tremont Streets—an area known as the Combat Zone. [2] The blast tore up a 50-foot (15 m) section of sidewalk and part of the street. The floor under the Paramount Hotel's cocktail lounge collapsed and around 30 of its patrons fell into the basement.
The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., was sold to Conrad Hilton's Hilton Hotels in 1954 for $111 million, then the world's largest real estate transaction. [ 1 ] The Statler hotel in Buffalo was the first to be demolished after the Hilton acquisition, in 1968.