The Central Fire Station in

Jackson, Mississippi Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the Capital city, capital of and the List of municipalities in Mississippi, most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, Mississippi, ...

, located on S. President St., was built in 1904. It was listed on the

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in 1975. It is a three-story stuccoed brick building with a

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, which is in plan. It was designed by architect

P.H. Weathers Patrick Henry Weathers (born 1870), commonly known as P.H. Weathers, was an American architect of Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Alabama. He studied architecture under architect Eugene T. Heiner of Houston, Texas. By 1886 he had done work ...

. With

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