United States Coast Guard Base Boston is located in the North End, Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to a number of cutters, including the USCGC Escanaba (WMEC-907), USCGC Spencer (WMEC-905), USCGC Flying Fish, USCGC Pendant, and USCGC Seneca (WMEC-906), along with other small fleet units. The small boat station located on the base was re-opened in 2003 after being closed in 1996.
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The Nashua Street Jail, also known as the Suffolk County Jail is a jail located in Boston, Massachusetts. It opened on Memorial Day in 1990 as a replacement for the overcrowded Charles Street Jail, located half a mile to the southwest. This facility houses almost 744 pre-trial detainees in 13 different housing units. The jail has 453 cells containing 654 individual beds. The entire facility is maximum security. Philip Markoff, the so-called "Craiglist Killer", was detained and committed suicide while in detention on August 15, 2010.
Constellation Wharf on Pier 7 is a community of 64 condominium homes located at the end of Ninth Street in the historic Charlestown Navy Yard. Completed in 1987, Constellation Wharf’s façade was designed to suggest a naval ship. The angles and layouts maximize the views along the waterfront, including the Boston skyline and the Zakim Bridge. The gray clapboard exterior honors New England history, while the interiors are clean, bright, angular glimpses of the future. While the building level varies between three- and five-stories, the primary unit type is a three level townhouse over 2,550 square feet. Unit sizes range from two- to four-stories, from 1,780 to 3,190 square feet, with two to four bedrooms. Each residence has water views, private entrances and balconies, fireplaces, and large open floor plans with lots of light. Deeded parking is available for each unit and many units have attached garages. The property is gated, with 24-hour security, staffed by friendly guards. The Boston Police Department regularly patrols the area, affording an aura of safety and security.
The Skinny House at 44 Hull Street in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, is an extremely narrow four-story house reported by the Boston Globe as having the "uncontested distinction of being the narrowest house in Boston." According to the executive director of the Boston Landmarks Commission, "In a city where there are many narrow lots, this far exceeds the norm.... As far as we know, it is the narrowest house in Boston." It was originally built as a spite house.DescriptionThe house spans 10.4 feet (3.16 m) at Hull Street, its widest point. There is no entrance here; the house may only be entered via a small alley. The house tapers to 9.25 feet (2.82 m) at the back. On the interior, the outer walls are as little as 8.4 feet (2.56 m) apart and none are more than 9.2 feet (2.80 m) apart. The home's narrowest interior point is 6.2 feet (1.89 m) across, close enough to allow an adult to touch opposing walls.There are only five doors in the house although it has four levels. The second floor holds the living room and the bathroom, one of the few spaces separated by a door. As of 2005, the owners are Jennifer Simonic and Spencer Welton, who live what the Boston Globe called "a vertical life".Simonic described: We had a party of 10 one New Year's Eve, and when one person has to go to the bathroom, everyone has to move.... We've had people just walk into our backyard and sit at our picnic table.... They say, "We'll just be a couple of minutes, we just want to take a couple of pictures." That was bizarre.
The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35mph, killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and for decades afterward residents claimed that on hot summer days the area still smelled of molasses.FloodThe disaster occurred at the Purity Distilling Company facility on January 15, 1919. The temperature had risen above 40F, climbing rapidly from the frigid temperatures of the preceding days.Molasses can be fermented to produce rum and ethanol, the active ingredient in other alcoholic beverages and a key component in the manufacturing of munitions. The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge.At about 12:30 in the afternoon near Keany Square, at 529 Commercial Street, a molasses tank 50ft tall, 90ft in diameter, and containing as much as 2,300,000USgal, collapsed. Witnesses variously reported that as it collapsed they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train (coincidentally, with a line of that type close by), a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang!, and as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.
The Bunker Hill School is a historic school at 68 Baldwin Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston.The school was designed by James Rand in 1866 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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The Francis B. Austin House is a historic house at 58 High Street in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Second Empire style house was built in 1832 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.