Palmer Fire School

Palmer Fire School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Palmer Fire School, January 2005
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Location	2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°26′15″N82°13′45″W / 35.43750°N 82.22917°W / 35.43750; -82.22917
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1938 (1938), 1940
Built by	City of Charlotte Engineering Dept.
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	04000906 [1]
Added to NRHP	August 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]

See also

• Fire Station No. 2 (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex

References

1. "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 February 1, 2015.