Palmer Fire School
Palmer Fire School | |
 Palmer Fire School, January 2005 | |
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| Location | 2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°26′15″N 82°13′45″W / 35.43750°N 82.22917°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | 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[edit]
- Fire Station No. 2 (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Works Progress Administration in North Carolina
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina
- School buildings completed in 1940
- Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Firefighting academies
- Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs