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Engine House No. 8 (Baltimore, Maryland)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
94001577

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Built
  
1871 (1871)

Opened
  
1871

Added to NRHP
  
26 January 1995

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Location
  
1027 W. Mulberry St., Baltimore, Maryland

MPS
  
Cast Iron Architecture of Baltimore MPS

Similar
  
Engine House No 6, Sellers Mansion, Royal Farms Arena, National Great Blacks In, Homewood Museum

Engine House No. 8 was a historic fire station located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was a two-story masonry building with a cast-iron street front, erected in 1871 in the Italianate style. The front featured a simple cornice with a central iron element bearing the legend "No. 8". Engine Company No. 8 operated from this building until 1912. In 1928 it became the motorcycle shop of Louis M. Helm and the upper story functioned as a clubhouse for a series of boys’ clubs into the 1940s.

Engine House No. 8 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. About 2002, the property was sold and the building was torn down. However, the cast-iron facade was saved, and the first floor cast-iron components were installed at the Fire Museum of Maryland, where the fire house has been put back together.

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Engine House No. 8 (Baltimore, Maryland) Wikipedia