Engine Company 15 Fire Station facts for kids
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Engine Company 15 Fire Station
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| Location | 8 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architect | Zunner & Sellew |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | Firehouses of Hartford MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000023 |
| Added to NRHP | March 2, 1989 |
The Engine Company 15 Fire Station is a historic building in Hartford, Connecticut. It is located at 8 Fairfield Avenue. This fire station was built in 1909. It is special because it is one of only two firehouses left in Hartford that was built to keep horses. Horses used to pull the fire engines!
The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1989. This means it is an important building worth protecting. Today, it is still an active fire station. It is home to Engine Company 15 and Ladder Company 2 of the Hartford Fire Department.
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About the Fire Station Building
The Engine Company 15 Fire Station is in the southwestern part of Hartford. You can find it where Fairfield and New Britain Avenues meet. It is a two-story building made of brick. It has a style called Colonial Revival. This style uses design ideas from early American buildings.
Building Design and Features
The fire station is shaped like a rectangle. It has three main sections, called bays. The section on the far left is for people to walk in. The two sections on the right are large openings for fire trucks. These openings used to be smaller.
On the second floor, the windows are in groups of three. They have special stone decorations above them. There are also stone bands, called stringcourses, that run across the building. One is above the first-floor windows. Another is below the second-floor windows. A stone sign above the truck bays shows the company's name.
Inside the Fire Station
Inside the station, the upstairs rooms still have their original wooden trim around doors and windows. There are wooden doors that hide the fire pole, which firefighters slide down. At the back of the second floor, you can still see parts of what was once a hay loft. This is where hay for the horses was stored.
On the ground floor, behind where the fire trucks are kept, there is a kitchen. This kitchen was built in the space where the horse stalls used to be. In the basement, there was once an area for drying fire hoses.
History of Engine Company 15
Engine Company 15 started in 1909. This building was their very first station. The Hartford company of Zunner and Sellew designed it. Over the years, some parts of the building's outside have changed. For example, the openings for the fire trucks were made bigger. Also, the roof used to have more fancy decorations, called a cornice, which are no longer there.
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The Engine Company 15 Fire Station in Hartford, Connecticut.
