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Elm Street Fire Station

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Location
  
Gardner, Massachusetts

NRHP Reference #
  
80001677

Opened
  
1897

Added to NRHP
  
2 April 1980

Built
  
1897

Designated CP
  
June 3, 1999

Architectural style
  
Victorian architecture

Elm Street Fire Station

Part of
  
Gardner Uptown Historic District (#99000660)

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The Elm Street Fire Station is a historic fire station at 58 Elm Street in Gardner, Massachusetts. When it was built in 1897, the building had a number of innovative features. It used a distinctive suspension system to support the building's second story without the need for columns, using steel rods attached to the load bearing outside walls. The six story bell tower was also used as a hose drying facility. Other interior facilities include systems for automatically dropping harnesses onto waiting horses, which were at the time the means by which fire equipment was moved.

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and included in the Gardner Uptown Historic District in 1999.

References

Elm Street Fire Station Wikipedia