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Washington Firehouse No. 5

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Built
  
1851

Opened
  
1851

NRHP Reference #
  
83003462

Added to NRHP
  
22 December 1983

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Location
  
7 North Lawrence Street Mobile, Alabama

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

Similar
  
Mobile City Hospital, United States Marine H, Carlen House, St Louis Street Missionar

Washington Firehouse No. 5 is a historic fire station in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The two-story brick Greek Revival building was built in 1851 at a cost of $5,500. It was constructed to house the privately run Washington Fire Company. The building features a Doric distyle-in-antis arrangement at the street level supporting an upper story with jib windows opening onto a cantilevered iron balcony. The building was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1983.

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Washington Firehouse No. 5 Wikipedia