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List Of Fire Stations
This is a list of notable current and former fire stations, which are also called "fire houses", "fire halls", "engine houses", "hook and ladder companies" and other terms. It includes combination buildings, such as city halls or other government buildings that include a fire station. This list is intended to include all historic fire stations which have formally been listed on historic registers, as well as modern ones notable for their architecture or other reasons. This list is not intended to cover fire department buildings that are purely administrative. Nor does it cover specialty buildings serving as fire alarm headquarters or pumping stations for water supply systems dedicated to firefighting; for these see List of fire department specialty facilities. Note the term "engine houses" may refer to other collections of engines, e.g. for supplying power to factories; these are covered in a separate list of engine houses. Narrow towers rising above many fire station buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Stations
__NOTOC__ A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire hoses and other specialized equipment. Fire stations frequently contain working and living space for the firefighters and support staff. In large US cities, fire stations are often named for the primary fire companies and apparatus housed there, such as "Ladder 49". Other fire stations are named based on the district, neighborhood, town or village where they are located, or given a number. Facilities A fire station will at a minimum have a garage for housing at least one fire engine. There will also be storage space for equipment, though the most important equipment is stored in the vehicle itself. The approaches to a fire station are often posted with warning signs, and there may be a traffic signal to stop or warn traffic when apparatus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nundah Fire Station
Nundah Fire Station is a heritage-listed former fire station at 7 Union Street, Nundah, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Atkinson & Conrad and built in 1936 by T F Woollam. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 March 1999. History A modest, functional civic building, the Nundah Fire Station has been the operational centre for fire services in Nundah since 1936. Between 1860 and 1868 there were five attempts to form a fire fighting service for Brisbane. Each brigade struggled to survive unable to attract a viable subscription base and hampered by inadequate equipment and an unreliable water supply. The establishment of an effective fire service did not enjoy a high priority among civic and government leaders. A fifth brigade, the City Volunteer Fire Brigade, was established in 1868. New rules provided for better financial control and balanced representation through the Fire Brigade Board with membership from the Brisbane Municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belltower, Maryborough Fire Station
The Belltower of the Maryborough Fire Station in Maryborough, Victoria was built in 1888, and is important as one of a small group of fire station towers erected in Victoria. It is an example of a rare building type, essential to the nineteenth century city, made redundant by the advent of electric communications. The design of the brick part of the tower is eclectic, with a wide arched base, battered walls, diagonally placed windows, and an Italianate arcaded belfry. This is topped by a most unusual, very tall timber superstructure. The Belltower is attached to the fire station which was built in 1861, and now used as the Maryborough Art Gallery. The belltower is listed on the Register of the National Estate The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Herita ... and was classified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keilor Fire Station
Keilor Fire Station is the first in a series of three fire stations in suburban Melbourne, Victoria designed by Edmond and Corrigan. It is located in Milleara Road, Keilor East. Founded in the late 1970s, Edmond and Corrigan are widely recognised for their involvement in post-modern architecture focusing on Australian cultural factors. Their designs draw on different aspects that contribute to and shape society itself such as poetry, theatre, literature, dance and art combining particular influences to achieve a final architectural outcome. Peter Corrigan once said, "Buildings are informed by ideas… with generosity, intelligence and ambition". Description An example of domestic architecture, Keilor Fire Station is a building that strives to communicate the role fire-fighters play in society through planning, layout shape, colour and materiality. The building is recognisable by a heavy tile roof and a tall jaunty corridor with clerestories In architecture, a clerestory ( ; , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Fire Tower Ballarat
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. '' Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unley Museum
The Unley Museum is a local history museum in Unley, South Australia located at 80 Edmund Avenue in the former Unley Fire Station building, built in 1898. It was founded as a museum in 1971, and operated by the City of Unley The City of Unley is a local government area in the Adelaide metropolitan region. It is located directly south of the Adelaide city centre. The Corporate Town of Unley was created in 1871, when 2,000 signatories to a petition from residents o .... The museum with five gallery spaces has more than 12,000 photographs and objects, and has grown from donations of Unley people. The Unley Museum incorporates several display galleries, a research library, and conducts research into house histories and families of Unley. In 2012 The Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2012 (Level 2), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition" for "Gorgeous Gardens". The judges described the project: "An engaging project, innovatively presented, well r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unley Fire Station
The Unley Museum is a local history museum in Unley, South Australia located at 80 Edmund Avenue in the former Unley Fire Station building, built in 1898. It was founded as a museum in 1971, and operated by the City of Unley The City of Unley is a local government area in the Adelaide metropolitan region. It is located directly south of the Adelaide city centre. The Corporate Town of Unley was created in 1871, when 2,000 signatories to a petition from residents o .... The museum with five gallery spaces has more than 12,000 photographs and objects, and has grown from donations of Unley people. The Unley Museum incorporates several display galleries, a research library, and conducts research into house histories and families of Unley. In 2012 The Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2012 (Level 2), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition" for "Gorgeous Gardens". The judges described the project: "An engaging project, innovatively presented, well r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Adelaide Fire Station
The Fire Station Inn, also known as the North Adelaide Fire Station, at 82 Tynte Street, is a historic fire station building in North Adelaide, South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o .... It was built as a shop in 1866. It was renovated to serve as a fire station in 1904. As of 2018, it is used as tourist accommodation. It was listed as a State Heritage Place on the South Australian Heritage Register on 11 September 1986. References {{reflist Defunct fire stations in Australia South Australian Heritage Register North Adelaide Former buildings and structures in South Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Gambier Fire Station
The Mount Gambier Fire Station, at 40a Sturt Street, in Mount Gambier, South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o ... is a historic site listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. It was built in 1955. It was deemed notable as "an unusual and intact example of a mid-1950s utilitarian purpose built service building. The building is representative of post-war functionalist architecture on a minor scale, and was the basis of the prototype for of a number of new regional fire stations. It demonstrates the provision and upgrading of public utilities after World War Two (Mt Gambier Heritage Survey, 1994)." As of 2018, the building is being used as an optometrist office. The current Mount Gambier Fire Station is located at 20 Crouch Street. It is staffed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindmarsh Fire And Folk Museum
The Hindmarsh Fire and Folk Museum is a history museum housed in a former fire station in Hindmarsh, South Australia. It includes historical fire equipment and other artifacts from the former Hindmarsh Fire Brigade, dating back to the 1880s. The building was a fire station from 1890 to 1925. According to the South Australia heritage register or whatever, "The congregation of the former Christian Chapel traced its roots to a small band of Christians, for a time presided over by Pastor Thomas Playford, patriarch of the Playford family The Playford family has played a significant role in the South Australian and Australian political and social sphere since the early days of European settlement. * Thomas Playford senior, an ex-soldier who fought at the Battle of Waterloo, a fi ..., who erected a non-denominational Christian Chapel fronting Lindsay Circus (site of the soccer stadium) c.1845. The chapel was altered, possibly in the 1850s, but may incorporate parts of the origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Adelaide Fire Station (7596706934)
The Fire Station Inn, also known as the North Adelaide Fire Station, at 82 Tynte Street, is a historic fire station building in North Adelaide, South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o .... It was built as a shop in 1866. It was renovated to serve as a fire station in 1904. As of 2018, it is used as tourist accommodation. It was listed as a State Heritage Place on the South Australian Heritage Register on 11 September 1986. References {{reflist Defunct fire stations in Australia South Australian Heritage Register North Adelaide Former buildings and structures in South Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Fire Station
__NOTOC__ Adelaide Fire Station is a fire station located in Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia. It was designed by architects Rod Roach and Woodhead Australia, it is notable "for its innovative design is an outstanding example of postmodern architecture", it was designed and built during 1976 to 1983. The complex includes auxiliary buildings and a concrete training tower. It was listed on the South Australian Heritage Register on 16 September 2015. See also *List of fire stations *Timeline of Adelaide history This is a timeline of Adelaide history. Prior to 1800s *The Kaurna peoples' traditional lands stretched from Port Broughton to Cape Jervis, encompassing the Adelaide Plains. 1800s 1830s * 1834: ''South Australia Act 1834'' (the "Foundation A ..., which mentions large fires, including one across from a predecessor fire station References External linksOfficial webpage Fire stations in South Australia Buildings and structures in Adelaide Governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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