These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving story of the United States.

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

The exhibition builds on themes of architecture and urban space central to other recent exhibitions at the Athenaeum, such as Revisiting the Ruins: The Great Boston Fire of 1872 and Developing Boston: ...

In 1872, a fire which began in the basement of a warehouse in downtown Boston raged for 12 hours, consuming 65 acres and leaving 776 buildings in ruins. The Great Boston Fire killed at least 30 ...