Pleasant Street Firehouse

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Pleasant Street Firehouse
Pleasant Street Firehouse
Pleasant Street Firehouse is located in Massachusetts
Pleasant Street Firehouse
Pleasant Street Firehouse is located in the United States
Pleasant Street Firehouse
Location408 Pleasant St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°15′48″N 71°48′59″W / 42.26333°N 71.81639°W / 42.26333; -71.81639
Built1873
Architectural styleLate Victorian
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000597 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 05, 1980

The Pleasant Street Firehouse is an historic former firehouse at 408 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. One of three fire stations built by the city in 1873, it was Worcester's oldest active firehouse[2] when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] It has since been converted to commercial retail use.[3]

Description and history

The former Pleasant Street Firehouse stands in a mixed residential-commercial area west of downtown Worcester, at the southwest corner of Pleasant and Winslow Streets. It is a two story brick building, with a hip roof topped by an open cupola, and a pedimented gable with oriel window atop the center section of the main (north-facing) facade. There are three equipment bays on the ground floor, all of which have been enclosed with wood frame walls clad in shingles. The outer bays each have a door in them, that on the right also with a plate glass window to the right. Two similar glass windows are found in the central bay. Windows in the second floor are topped by eared granite lintels.[2]

The city built this firehouse in 1873 on land purchased from Daniel Waldo Lincoln, a prominent local landowner. Its architect is unknown; the building is stylistically different from the other firehouses built at the same time.[2] Since its listing on the National Register in 1980, the city closed and sold the building, and it has been converted to commercial use.[3]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for Pleasant Street Firehouse". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
  3. ^ a b "Winslow Street firehouse, Worcester". Worcester Telegram. June 9, 2014. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
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