1874 - Fire on State Street.

An alarm of fire was given last Monday morning at 15 minutes past 12 o'clock, which brought out the department. It proceeded from the two-story wooden tenement house on the north-easterly corner of State and Warren streets, owned by Mrs. Cross, wife of Dr. H. P. Cross, of Jamaica Plains, Mass., and occupied by the family of Charles H. Piper, one of the proprietors of the Crawford House, Boston, Also by George McAllister and Mrs. Jane Piper. The fire was put out after damaging the house to the amount of a thousand dollars; covered by insurance.