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Designed by Earl Morrison and Vas Stimson in the Classical Revival style, Everett Fire Station No. 2 was built in 1925 by Solie and Wahl. The two-story structure with a trapezoidal floor plan, sits on a concrete foundation and has a basement. A 10-foot (3.0 m) hose tower projects from the south corner of the rear wall.
In 1967, Venturi was asked by the fire department of the city of Columbus to design a fire station, which was to be an "ordinary building that was easy to maintain". [3] The design features a trapezoidal plan, with a semicircular tower serving as the main entrance to the building. A notable feature of the tower is the large yellow number 4 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Yeronga Fire Station is a heritage-listed former fire station at 785 ... Rectangular in plan, the ground floor contains an ...
Fire stations frequently contain working and living space for the firefighters and support staff. In large U.S. cities, fire stations are often named for the primary fire companies and apparatus housed there, such as "Ladder 49". Other fire stations are named based on the settlement, neighborhood or street where they are located, or given a number.
NO. 730 OLD PLAZA FIREHOUSE - Dedicated to the firemen of the Los Angeles Fire Department-past, present, and future-who, by their courage and faithful devotion to duty, have protected the lives and property of the citizens of Los Angeles from the ravages of fire since 1871. This was the first building constructed as a fire station in Los Angeles.
The plan of the fire station is also based on an ordered, functional system.’ The usual engine and watch rooms, as well as the workshops, are situated on the ground floor’ (The Star 1920:6) The rooms are simply decorated and kept in a neat, orderly condition, to ensure the efficient operation of the station.
Firehouse, Engine Company 31 is a historic fire station located at 87 Lafayette Street between Walker and White Streets in the Tribeca and Civic Center neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1895 and designed by architects Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, who styled it after early-16th-century chateaux in the Loire Valley of France ...
The fire station was built in the Renaissance Revival style in 1908. Hose Station No. 7 features a rectangular plan, a hipped roof, bracketed eaves, a short tower in which the hoses dried, and a brick exterior with brick quoining. A single pair of firehouse doors, behind which the firefighting equipment was stored, fronted Fourth Street.