Boston 1872: shells of stone
The 1872 fire ruins show standing walls among rubble.
The questionWhat did the fires clear, and what was put back?
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Boston 1872 fire ruins
1 clue in this photo
Photo: Smith, Joshua, copyright claimant · Public domain · via Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons
Same kind of clue, elsewhere
#6A steel cage under an intact domeIf grand civic buildings had steel and brick cores, what did the fair palaces have inside?
All of it goneAre there foundation remains under Kountze Park, and has anyone dug for them?
1,500 buildings, almost none leftWhere did all that material go?
Danvers 2006: a crane to bring it downIf taking it down needed modern machinery, how was it built with horses?
A Euston Arch column from a canalWhere else did demolished stone end up, and what was taken out of the record?