Woodland Street Firehouse

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Woodland Street Firehouse
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Location36 Woodland St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°15′26″N71°49′5″W / 42.25722°N 71.81806°W / 42.25722; -71.81806
Built1886
Architect Fuller & Delano
Architectural styleQueen Anne, Romanesque
MPS Worcester MRA
NRHP reference No. 80000630 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 05, 1980

The Woodland Street Firehouse is an historic fire station at 36 Woodland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the finest of Worcester Victorian-era firehouses. The two story brick building was built in 1886 in a Queen Anne style, with some Romanesque details. It is nearly identical to Worcester's Cambridge Street Firehouse; both were designed by Fuller & Delano and built the same year. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It is no longer used as a firehouse. [3] Engine 10 ran out of this station until 1979 when it moved to Park Ave until the company was eliminated in 2009.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Woodland Street Firehouse". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
  3. "Fire Stations". City of Worester. Retrieved 2014-01-06.