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.
  • Memorial
  • …is inscribed with “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.”
  • Description: Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Also known as
    “Vendome Fire Memorial”
    “Vendome Firefighters’ Memorial”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Copley Square and Copley Society of Art.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Back Bay and Back Bay-Beacon Hill.
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Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial

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Latitude
42.35199° or 42° 21′ 7″ north
Longitude
-71.07782° or 71° 4′ 40″ west
Open location code
87JC9W2C+QV
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Highlights include Lt. Thomas D. Amory Square and Dartmouth Street Mall.

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