Haffenreffer Brewery

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The Haffenreffer Brewery is included on the List of Registered Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It was added on June 2, 1982.^[1]

Haffenreffer & Co. was established in 1870.^[2]

An undated photograph of the Haffenreffer brewery, which once had a famous tap that poured out free beer day and night. The area was bustling, and on many days the smell of hops filled the air.

A T station map showing the area.

Immediatly upon exiting the T station you will be facing a park.

To reach the facility you must turn left and walk along Boylston Street.

You will pass a sign for Kelly Rink and a Legal Services Center on your immediate left.

The Boylston Congregational Church is located at the northwest corner of the intersection.

One is offered by a sign posted on the side of El Pro~resso Market.

If you follow this route and walk on the right side of Armory Street you will pass a house with some collages in the driveway and two televisions facing the window.

Take a left at the intersection of Armory and Porter,

and continue on Porter until it dead ends into Bismark.The two signs in the picture direct visitors to either the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corpporattion or the Samuel Adams Brewery, both occupy the facility.

Another way to reach the bussiness complex that is now called "The Brewery," and the best route if you are traveling by car, is to not take a right at Porter on Armory, but to take a right shortly after passing Porter into the parking lot.

If you enter The Brewery at the 284 Armory St. main entrance which faces the parking lot,

you will enter a lobby lit by red tinted flourescent bulbs. There will be a community message board to your right.

If you walk towards the facility you may note that the house located at 169 Boylston Street has a very interesting facade.

The window on the second story on the right side has a little fishy in its woodworking.

Brookside Avenue intersects Germania Street, which cuts through the facility to meet Bismark.

Until recently this side of the site the buildings looked unnrenovated. The empty lot which butts up against the graffiti-marked building contained a dumpster, old beer barrels and a wood-chip pile.

The space appears to be undergoing construction.

To reach the more apparently redeveloped portion of the facility facing Armory Street continue along Merriam until you reach the main entrance parking lot.

The facility is located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a short walk from the Stony Brook T station.

You will arrive at the corner of Boylston and Armory Streets. There are a couple of different routes you may take to reach the facility from this point.

This sign directs you down Armory Street towards Porter Street, where you will take a left to reach the part of the facility now owned by the Boston Beer Company, and where you could take a tour of the Samuel Adams Brewery.

There are numerous businesses now occupying the main buildings of "The Brewery." These include:

JP School of Dance

Mike's Fitness

ULA Cafe

Stonybrook Woodworking

Bikes not Bombs

City Life/Vida Urbana

Children's Music Center of JP

The Parent Review

Women in the Building Trades

Boston Beer Company

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At the intersection of Boylston and Armory you may decide not to turn right, as in the captioned descriptions, but to continue on Boylston.

You may also continue on Boylston Street to Brookside Avenue, which runs along the far side of the facility.

The top of the smokestack from the old Haffenreffer Brewery has crumbled, so the letters on its side now read FENREFFER BREWERS. It is unsure whether with further upgrades the top will be repaired. ^[4]