• Source: FBG-Sweet's

• Boston
• 1904
• Demolished, date unknown.

This was a large concrete foundation, storage tanks, sheds and pumping plant, built dockside for ship unloading and storage of molasses.

Molasses was a huge commodity in Boston through the middle of the 20th century, mostly processed into industrial grain alcohol. It was shipped in from the Caribbean and other sugar-growing regions and stored by the million gallons in gigantic, usually wooden tanks. Pumping the thick substance under varying temperatures proved a difficult engineering feat.

Gilbreth engineer William H. Larkin was site superintendent for this project, significant technical details of which were apparently designed and worked out by FBG.

• In 1919, a molasses tank holding some 2M gallons ruptured and flooded a considerable area of the Boston waterfront, causing 21 deaths and 150 injuries. This was not the tank or company (Purity Distilling Co) involved in that disaster.

• Substantial Engineering Record article of 17 Sep 1904
• FBG job listing notice, 7 Jan 1905
• Sweet's Catalogue of Building Construction advertisement, 1909

Demolished, date unknown.

None.

• Engineering Record, 17 Sep 1904

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
• https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167949
• http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/193/193mass387.html
• http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/274/274mass589.html