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Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)

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Built
  
1885

Opened
  
1885

Added to NRHP
  
25 July 1977

NRHP Reference #
  
77000193

Area
  
1,214 m²

Architect
  
Waldo V. Howard

Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)

Location
  
Brockton, Massachusetts

Architectural style
  
Second Empire architecture in Europe

Similar
  
Brockton Edison Electric Ill, Forest Avenue School, Brockton City Hall, DW Field Park, Campanelli Stadium

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.

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

References

Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts) Wikipedia