Hose and Hook and Ladder Truck Building facts for kids
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Hose and Hook and Ladder Truck Building
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 Location in Connecticut
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| Location | Main Street, Thomaston, Connecticut |
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| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1882 |
| Architect | Hill, Robert W. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004479 |
| Added to NRHP | January 4, 1982 |
The Hose and Hook and Ladder Truck Building is a special old building in Thomaston, Connecticut. It used to be a firehouse, where fire trucks and firefighters were kept. This building was built in 1882. It shows off a beautiful style called Late Victorian architecture.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1982. This means it's an important historical place. After being a firehouse for about 100 years, it is now a place where art is shown.
What Does This Historic Building Look Like?
The old Hose and Hook and Ladder Truck Building is in a great spot in Thomaston. It sits between the town hall and opera house and Trinity Church. These are also very interesting buildings.
The firehouse is two and a half stories tall. It is made of brick with nice granite details. It has a tall, eye-catching tower with a pointed roof. This tower looks a bit like a Venetian-style tower.
The building is mostly the same on both sides, except for the tower. It has large openings for fire trucks. On either side of these, there are doors for people to walk through. These doors share a covered porch. The porch has cool arched designs and wooden spindles above it.
The second floor has brick columns, called pilasters. These separate different parts of the building. Above the truck openings, there are matching gabled sections. The very top parts of the building have decorative shingles. These shingles surround half-round arches with two windows in each.
A Look Back in Time
This building was finished in 1882. It was designed by an architect named Robert Wakeman Hill. He was from Waterbury. He also designed the opera house next door a few years later.
The building served as Thomaston's firehouse until 1979. That's almost a century of helping the town! The bricks used to build it came from the Seth Thomas family brickyard nearby. The first groups to use the building were volunteer firefighters. They were people who helped put out fires for free.
