The Vendome (Boston, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Somerville / Boston, Massachusetts / Commonwealth Avenue, 160
 condominium, disaster site
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www.vendome160.com/

Condminiums, located in a historic hotel building constructed in 1871-81. Site of New England's worst firefighting disaster in 1972 when the southeastern corner of the building collapsed during cleanup. A memorial to the nine firefighters who lost their lives is located diagonally across Dartmouth Street in the Commonwealth Avenue Mall.

www.cityofboston.gov/fire/memorial/vendome_fire.asp
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Coordinates:   42°21'4"N   71°4'43"W
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