Building type
Station houses that turn a municipal service building into one of the city's most characterful recurring types.
Firehouses almost always reward close looking. Even when they are compact, they tend to carry a strong civic presence, and taken together they show how much design attention once went into ordinary public infrastructure.
13 building histories
Firehouse · 1904-05
104 Duane Street, New York, NY
The Engine Company No. 7/Hook & Ladder Company No.1 Firehouse, designed in the Beaux-Arts style --or what at the time was described as the "modern French" style -. by the prominent architectural firm of Trowbridge &...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1905-06
215 West 58th Street, New York, NY
Engine Company Number 23, built in 1905-06, was designed by Alexander H. Stevens in a straightforward Beaux-Arts style that served as a model for subsequent firehouse design. The symmetry of the three story facade, its...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1897-98
514 W 170th Street, New York, NY
The station house for Engine Company 67 was constructed in 1897-98 for a newly-formed fire company established to serve the rapidly-growing section of New York City known as Washington Heights. Using the specific...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1883-84
175 East 104th Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1884, Fire Engine Company No. 53 was designed by the prominent firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, architects for the Fire Department between 1879 and 1895. Fire Engine Company No. 53 is an excellent example of...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1888-89
120 East 125th Street, New York, NY
Fire Hook & Ladder Company No. 14, built in 1888-89, was designed by the architectural firm of N. LeBrun & Sons in the Romanesque Revival style. Between the years of 1880 and 1895, N. LeBrun & Sons helped to define the...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1884-86
159 East 67th Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company 39 and Ladder Company 16 Station House is an outstanding example of late nineteenth century civic architecture. Built in 1884-86, the six-story Romanesque Revival structure was designed by N. LeBrun...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1889-90
500 West 113th Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company No. 47, built in 1889-90, is a distinguished firehouse designed by the architectural firm N. LeBrun & Sons. Stylistically, it combines features of Romanesque Revival and Classical Revival styles,...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1898-99
363 Broome Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company 55 is a richly ornamented, mid-block firehouse, erected in 1898¬-99. It was the prominent New York architect R. H. Robertson's only commission for the New York City Fire Department and one of the...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1897-98
33 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1897-98, the Fire Engine Company No. 65 firehouse was built to increase fire protection in an almost unprotected yet increasingly fashionable neighborhood. Its construction came at the end of a decade of...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1906-07
515 West 161st Street, New York, NY
Fire Engine Company No. 84 and Hook & Ladder Company No. 34, built in 1906-¬07, is a monumental building designed by Francis H. Kimball. The facade of Engine Company No. 84 and Hook & Ladder Company No. 34 is a...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1895
87 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
This Fire House in the French Renaissance Eclectic Style of architecture is an outstanding example of good civic architecture of its time. Here in this small fire house can be seen the result of New York City's attempt...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1893
44 Great Jones Street, New York, NY
Dominated by a graceful arch, monumental in scale, this late Nineteenth Century Firehouse is a striking example of the French Beaux Arts style of architecture. A daring design in its day, the impressive facade contains...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1888
304 West 47th Street, New York, NY
Erected in 1888, the former Fire Engine Company No. 54 was designed by the prominent firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Son, architects for the New York City Fire Department, between 1879 and 1895. Former Fire Engine Company No....
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