The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Felton-turner Company
Prominent heating and ventilating contractors, 34 Warren Street, Roxbury
Ranking among the leading and most widely known heating and ventilating engineers in this region is the house of the Felton-Turner Heating Company at No. 34 Warren Street, Roxbury, without a mention of which in these columns the industrial history of this district would he incomplete. This business was established forty years ago by B. W. Felton and came under the proprietorship of the firm of Felton & Turner in 1895. It adopted its present designation in 1902 and was incorporated as a stock company under the of Massachusetts in 1903. B. (Benjamin) F. Turner is the president and treasurer of the company, and H. B. Turner is its secretary. The corporation occupies the ground floor and basement of its building, 25 by 75 feet in dimensions and maintains a warehouse and shop in the rear, consisting of a three-story frame structure, 47 by 50 feet in dimensions. The front portion of the ground floor contains a fine display of heaters, furnaces, stoves and ranges and kitchen hardware. These goods include the celebrated “Glenwood,” Felton and and other makes of furnaces, heaters. stoves and ranges, a stock exceedingly difficult of duplication elsewhere. The basement is devoted to stove linings and accessories and to repair work. The shop. in the rear is fully equipped with mechanical appliances and devices of the most modern kind for doing all kinds of light sheet metal work, for which this house is deservedly famous. A specialty is made of the installation of complete heating systems of every description in private dwelling houses and in making connections for the same for contractors. The patronage of the concern is drawn from a territory within a raidius of twenty-five miles around Boston, so widely is the house known for the superior quality in its special department of industry. It has equipped s vast number of the best residences in Roxbury and its neighborhood iin its successful career. Employment is given to a force of twenty-five skilled mechanics, or more, according to the demands to be executed.
Mr. Turner is a native of Canada and has been a resident of Boston for the last twenty-five years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Dudley Club. H. B. Turner, the secretary of the company, is a nephew of the president of the corporation. Both men are among the influential residents of Roxbury and are respected and esteemed by all of their fellow citizens for their integrity and honorr in all of their business relations and for their exemplary lives as private members of society. The prices charged for the expert work done by the company are low in the extreme.