B. F. Sturtevant Company
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The B. F. Sturtevant Company was a Boston-based manufacturer of fans. It became a leader in the manufacture of industrial air cooling and ventilation systems.
A Sturtevant Company ventilation system installed at a Montreal lumber planing mill, c. 1920
Jamaica Plain
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Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury. The community seceded
B. F. Sturtevant Company
…buildings. Sturtevant adapted hot blast technology for indoor heating, using ductwork to spread the warmed air. In 1876 the company moved its plant to the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, and soon began work with the United States Navy. In 1879, Sturtevant introduced a system for ventilating the hulls of ships…
Soldier's Monument and First Unitarian Universalist Church in Jamaica Plain
This milestone marking five miles (8 km) from the Boston Town House, now the site of the Old State House in downtown Boston, was placed on Centre Street by Paul Dudley in 1735.
Skating On Jamaica Pond by Winslow Homer, 1859
Classic triple deckers on Child Street