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Hampden Firehouse

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Area
  
less than one acre

Added to NRHP
  
13 April 1982

NRHP Reference #
  
82003761

Hampden Firehouse

Location
  
1101 Greenwich Street, Reading, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Edwin F. Durang Levi H. Focht, contractor

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Renaissance, Greek Revival Influence

Similar
  
Nolde Forest Environm, Daniel Boone Homestead, Genesius Theatre, Reading Public Museum, Santander Arena

Hampden Firehouse is a historic fire station located at Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1887, and is a two-story, brick building on a granite foundation in the Renaissance Revival style. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Edwin Forrest Durang (1829 – 1911). It features a double pedimented roof influenced by the Greek Revival style and round arched windows.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Hampden Firehouse Wikipedia