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The Strand Theatre Fire
Nicole Casper
On March 10, 1941, at 12:38 a.m., the Brockton Fire Department responded to Fire Alarm Box 1311, which was pulled for a fire at the Strand Theatre. Fire Alarm dispatched the deputy chief, three engine companies, a ladder company and Squad A. Within six minutes, a second alarm was struck. Less than one hour after the first alarm, the roof of the Strand collapsed, and what appeared to be a routine fire turned into a disaster that killed thirteen firefighters and injured more than twenty others. The disaster marks one of the largest losses of life to firefighters from a …
2005_Centennial Of Donahue And Alumni.Pdf, Nicole Casper
2005_Centennial Of Donahue And Alumni.Pdf, Nicole Casper
Nicole Casper
In 1905, Frederick Lothrop Ames and his wife moved into their new estate. The estate included a 2 1/2 story, fifty-five room Georgian style mansion house and a separate recreation building with an indoor marble swimming pool and clay tennis court. On the occasion of the building's centennial this publication was written to highlight the buildings and their use first by the Ames family and then as the first two buildings of Stonehill College.