Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)

Central Fire Station

Central Fire Station
Location Brockton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°5′6″N 71°1′17″W / 42.08500°N 71.02139°W / 42.08500; -71.02139Coordinates: 42°5′6″N 71°1′17″W / 42.08500°N 71.02139°W / 42.08500; -71.02139
Built 1885
Architect Waldo V. Howard
Architectural style Second Empire
NRHP Reference #

77000193

[1]
Added to NRHP July 25, 1977

The Central Fire Station is a historic fire station on 40 Pleasant Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. Built in 1884-85, the three story brick mansard-roofed Second Empire building included a number of "firsts". It was the first brick fire house in the city, and it was the nation's first fire house to be electrified, receiving its power via an underground cable from a nearby power plant that had been built under the supervision of Thomas Alva Edison.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Central Fire Station". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-12.


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