The Fayetteville Fire Department Fire Station 3 is a historic fire station at 4140 South School Street (
United States Route 71) in
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville () is the second-largest city in Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the biggest city in Northwest Arkansas. The city is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until ...
. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of brick in 1963 to a design by local architect T. Ewing Shelton, and is located near the northwest corner of the
Drake Field airport. It has two equipment bays on the left, articulated by projecting piers which have narrow windows on the outside. To the right is a lower section, housing a pedestrian entrance and a pair of sash windows. The station is significant as a high-quality local example of
Mid-Century Modern design, and for its exemplification of the community's growth in the mid-20th century.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
See also
*
Fayetteville Fire Department Fire Station 1
The Fayetteville Central Fire Station is a historic fire station at 303 West Center Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville () is the second-largest city in Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the biggest city in Northwe ...
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas
References
Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Government buildings completed in 1963
National Register of Historic Places in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Mid-century modern
Modernist architecture in Arkansas
1963 establishments in Arkansas
Aircraft rescue and firefighting
{{WashingtonCountyAR-NRHP-stub