Poppleton Fire Station
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Poppleton Fire Station | |
| File:Firehouse on MLK Dr Baltimore.JPG | |
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| Location | 756-760 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
| Built | 1910 |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 83002938[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 8, 1983 |
Poppleton Fire Station, also known as Engine House #38, is a historic fire station located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a Tudor Revival style building built of brick, one large bay wide, approximately nine bays long, and two stories high with a gable roof. The front façade is a brick and limestone composition featuring a central, Tudor archway flanked by octagonal towers and crowned with crenellation. The archway features engaged colonettes with carved, foliated capitals containing firemen racing to extinguish a fire. It was designed by Owens and Sisco and built in 1910.[2]
Poppleton Fire Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Fire departments in Maryland
- Engine House No. 6 (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Engine House No. 8 (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Paca Street Firehouse
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Poppleton Fire Station, Baltimore City, including photo from 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust
Categories:
- Fire stations completed in 1910
- Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore
- Tudor Revival architecture in Maryland
- Hollins Market, Baltimore
- Baltimore City Fire Department
- Baltimore Registered Historic Place stubs