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This photo is part of some research that I’m doing on the history of Asylum Hill, and it shows the distance from Firehouse No. 5 to the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, which is the distance John S. Taylor ran on February 1, 1931 after he discovered a fire in the basement of the church and the distance the firefighters traveled, in approximately one minute, to battle the fire. The firehouse and the church are in the same locations as they were in 1931, but the buildings are different – the church was rebuilt following the fire, and the current firehouse was built in 1939.
You can learn more about the fire at our Asylum Hill website.
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