Palmer Fire School

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Palmer Fire School
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Palmer Fire School, January 2005
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Location2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°26′15″N82°13′45″W / 35.43750°N 82.22917°W / 35.43750; -82.22917
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1938 (1938), 1940
Built byCity of Charlotte Engineering Dept.
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 04000906 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 25, 2004

Palmer Fire School, also known as Firemen's Hall, is a historic school complex for firefighters located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The complex consists of the 1940, one-story, rock-faced assembly hall and the 1938, six-story, red-brick training tower. The assembly hall is a Late Gothic Revival style building, five bays wide with a stuccoed, crenellated parapet and projecting end bays. Its construction was funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and was the only drill school for firemen funded by the WPA. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Mattson, Alexander & Associates, Inc. (February 2004). "Palmer Fire School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.