Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial
At 2:35 p.m. on June 17, 1972, fire broke out at the Hotel Vendome at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston.- Type: Memorial
- Description: Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Also known as: “Vendome Firefighters’ Memorial”
- Inscription: “Thomas W. Beckwith, Joseph F. Boucher Jr., Charles E. Dolan, John E. Jameson, Richard B. Magee, Paul J. Murphy, and Joseph P. Saniuk, and Lieutenants Thomas J. Carroll and John E. Hanbury Jr.”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Copley Square and Copley Society of Art.
Copley Square
Park
Photo: Ingfbruno, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Copley Square is a public square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, bounded by Boylston Street, Clarendon Street, St. James Avenue, and Dartmouth Street.
Copley Society of Art
Art gallery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Copley Society of Art is the oldest non-profit art association in the United States. It was founded in 1879 by the first graduating class of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and continues to play an important role in promoting its member artists and the visual arts in Boston. Copley Society of Art is situated 560 feet south of Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial.
Snowden International School
Library
The Muriel Sutherland Snowden International School at Copley is a public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Its international-themed curriculum was introduced by the school's namesake, Muriel S. Snowden International School is situated 520 feet south of Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Back Bay and Back Bay-Beacon Hill.
Back Bay
Suburb
Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Back Bay-Beacon Hill
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Bay Village
Suburb
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
Bay Village is the smallest officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. As of 2010, its population was approximately 1,312 residents living in 837 housing units, most of which are small brick rowhouses.
Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.35199° or 42° 21′ 7″ northLongitude
-71.07782° or 71° 4′ 40″ westOpen location code
87JC9W2C+QVOpenStreetMap ID
way 833346864OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q85767383
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