San Francisco Fire Department Engine Co. Number 2, at 460 Bush Street in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, United States, was built in 1908. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2002. It was designed by city architect Newton J. Tharp in Beaux Arts style. It is a two-story three-bay building with a projecting

entablature An entablature (; nativization of Italian , from "in" and "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and ...

and a raised

parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/breast'). Whe ...

, clad with warm gray stone. With

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* Beaux-Arts architecture in California Fire stations completed in 1908 Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco {{SanFrancisco-NRHP-stub