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Hose House No. 2 (Beverly, Massachusetts)
Hose House No. 2 is a historic firestation in Beverly, Massachusetts. It now houses a wireless telecommunication systems company. The building was constructed in 1905. It was designed by Kilham & Hopkins in a French Renaissance style. In addition to the Fireman's pole, traditional brass pole by which firemen reached the ground floor from the upper chambers, it also featured an electrical system which automatically turned on the lights when an alarm was sounded. The building has one garage bay, and a hip roof with ornately decorated and bracketed eaves. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts References Fire stations completed in 1905 Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Beverly, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts Defunct fire stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly, Massachusetts
Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, and a suburb of Boston. The population was 42,670 at the time of the 2020 United States Census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, North Beverly, Montserrat, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing. Beverly is a rival of Marblehead for the title of being the "birthplace of the U.S. Navy" History Native Americans inhabited what would become northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years before European colonization of the Americas. At the time of contact in the early 1600s the area that would become Beverly was between an important Naumkeag settlement in present-day Salem and Agawam settlements on Cape Ann, with probable indigenous settlement sites at the mouth of the Bass River. During the early contact period virgin soil epidemics ravaged native populations, reducing the indigenous population within the present boundaries of Beverly from an est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
