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The station has a yellow brick exterior and features arch windows with keystones, four pilasters on the north face, and a corbelled cornice. In addition to its primary function, the fire station served as a community center, as the department hosted social gatherings and many of Jefferson's prominent residents volunteered for the department.
The most prominent of the firehouses built in the 1890s was the Fire Department Headquarters built in Downtown Louisville at 617 W. Jefferson Street in 1891. It is Richardsonian Romanesque in style, as it was designed by the McDonald Brothers , who also designed the Kentucky National Bank and Norton's Warehouse buildings in downtown Louisville.
Four Italianate-styled buildings with party walls and elaborate brickwork, including James Barr's 1850 dry goods store which was the first brick store in Jefferson, Jacob Breunig's 1863 brewery and commercial block, and Nicholas Jung's dry goods store. Much of this was bought by Andreas Puerner in 1892 and developed into a department store ...
The Louisville Fire Department is the third oldest all-paid staff fire department in the nation. The first fire brigades established in Louisville were in 1780, two years after the city's creation. The first firehouses in Louisville were volunteer fire departments scattered throughout the city until June 1, 1858, when the city took control and ...
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The brush fire, which started Wednesday around 2 p.m., was monitored by the fire department for about 12 hours before they decided to let it burn out on its own, Brick Police said.
Fire crews battled a two-alarm blaze early Tuesday in the 800 block of West Amarillo Boulevard. At about 9:17 a.m. Tuesday, May 28, units from the Amarillo Fire Department (AFD) were sent to a ...
The current seal used represents Louisville and Jefferson County following the merger of the governments on January 6, 2003. The seal reads "Louisville – Jefferson County" in a circle around a single fleur-de-lis with two stars and includes the year 1778 (the year Louisville was founded) on both sides.