Colonial Chorus

Fountain Engine No. 3. In 1902, the town bought the land for this building for $10 and erected the building at a cost of $1,180.50. It was built in the residential Colonial Revival style, with a flared gambrel roof and lunette gable window. In 1904, the tower was added with an alarm striker and a bell that came from the John Street School. The bell was cast by Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston, in 1849. Born in 1799, Hooper was apprenticed as a young man in the shop of Paul Revere. Upon Revere’s retirement, he purchased the shop and ran the business from 1830–1860. [In 1984, the Old Hose House was listed on the National Register of