Central Fire Station (now Science Station Museum)

Central Fire Station (now Science Station Museum)

Central Fire Station (now Science Station Museum) Photograph by Catherine Boland Erkkila
1917. West corner of 5th Ave. and 1st St. S.E.

This fire station is a small, low-key classical exercise in brick. It is subtly invigorated by an odd pattern of segmental arched garage doors, not balanced (as is the rest of the composition), but with a rhythm of one large door, then a small one, followed by a large and then smaller opening.

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