Boston mayoral shelter The Boston mayoral shelter is a pre - War location in 2287 , created to shelter the mayor of Boston and his family from the nuclear strike in 2077 . Layout . The entrance to the shelter consists of a bunker and a control room to the immediate north of the bunker . In front of the bunker is a digger with a door lying in front of it , linked to its bucket by cables . This used to be the door to the bunker but was pulled off by the angry mob trying to get in . The bunker entrance has many skeletons in it , with two that appear to have been guards and the rest possibly part of the mob . The door to the shelter is controlled by a terminal in a security building just to the north of the entrance . The shelter itself consists of multiple layers including a gym , sleeping quarters , and a maintenance room with a crafting bench and armor crafting station . Initially , the door will be locked and the Sole Survivor must activate an unlocked terminal in the nearby control room . While in the bunker , several holodisks can be found documenting the stay in the bunker itself . From the moment they entered the bunker , the mayor and his wife address their concerns about the food stock and whether they would be able to survive the initial eighty days after the bombs dropped . As the Sole Survivor wanders deeper into the bunker , the remains of the wife and child can be found in the maintenance room , indicating their unfortunate demise . It is made apparent to the Sole Survivor that the mayor was extremely corrupt . As the player character goes further down into the structure , there are holotapes confirming that he had constructed a luxurious nuclear shelter at the tax payers ' expense , answering to his wife ' s every demand , such as a minibar , a fireplace , a home theater and even a full - sized gym , while many people were simply left for dead outside . After the bombs fell , a mob of angry citizens gathered outside the shelter , demanding entrance and blood . It is learned through a holotape that the mayor committed suicide , apparently by dropping a radio into the bathtub with himself . His goal was to have his wife produce his corpse to placate the angry crowd , in hopes they would spare her and his child . However , the crowd stormed the shelter before she even knew of his demise . They killed all the guards , and finally slaughtered both her and the child . There is a button upstairs in the gym that unlocks a shortcut back to the entrance . Alternatively , the player character can take a right turn when exiting the elevator ( gas leak ) and use a pipe to traverse to the lower level . When the player charcacter enters the shelter , the only hostiles at first will be the three laser turrets . As soon as the player character sets foot in the gym , synth s will appear throughout the shelter and occupy it . If not friendly with the Institute , one can fight through all of them back to the entrance or bypass a majority of them with the pipe in the gym . Entering the rough tunnel through the southwest corner of the gym will cause a deathclaw to enter through a hole in the ceiling as the player character approaches the light . Appearances . The Boston mayoral shelter only appears in " Fallout 4 " . Behind the scenes . The shelter may be based on the Massachusetts State Emergency Operations Center , located in the same approximate location ( next to Natick ) . It is a Cold War era bunker designed to withstand the blast from a potential nearby nuclear detonation . It ' s still in use as the headquarters of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency located in Framingham .