Association of Exempt Firemen Building

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Assembly of Exempt Firemen Building
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Association of Exempt Firemen Building in 2010
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Location213 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°44′22″N74°1′52″W / 40.73944°N 74.03111°W / 40.73944; -74.03111
Arealess than one acre
Built1870
Architect Francis G. Himpler
Architectural styleItalianate
MPS Hoboken Firehouses and Firemen's Monument TR
NRHP reference No. 84002678 [1]
NJRHP No.1459 [2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 30, 1984
Designated NJRHPFebruary 9, 1984

The Association of Exempt Firemen Building is located in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The building was designed by Francis G. Himpler and was built in 1870. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1984 as Assembly of Exempt Firemen Building. [1] [3] The building serves as a firefighters' union hall and as a museum of Hoboken firefighters' memorabilia, the Hoboken Fire Department Museum. [4] [5]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Hudson County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. July 7, 2009. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 5, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
  3. "New Jersey Office of Historic Preservation Individual Structure Survey:: Assembly of Exempt Firemen Building". National Park Service . Retrieved October 8, 2018. With accompanying photo
  4. Hoboken Walking Tour Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine , Accessed March 20, 2009.
  5. Musat, Stefanie (June 14, 2011), "Hoboken Fire Museum open on weekends", The Jersey Journal, retrieved June 18, 2011