Word: firebox
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building is constructed after the ordinary firebox system, five stories high, with one entry and staircase, no fire escape whatever on one side and on the other side a ladder which can be reached from one room on each floor. Of course if the tenant of that room is out, the door is locked. There is also a wooden stairway in the air shaft which requires no comment...