Niagara Engine House

The Niagara Engine House is a former fire station on North Hamilton Street in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York in the United States. The brick building was built at the beginning of the 20th century and is the only remaining fire station of the former six fire departments in the city. It was built by the local architect Percival M. Lloyd, who designed it in a later application neo-Gothic architecture. It was founded in 1982 with two other fire stations in Poughkeepsie in the National Register of Historic Places entered.

Building

The fire station is a three story brick building with three to five bays. The front facade faces east. Below the flat roof there is a projecting cornice with a frieze of brick, are attached to the blue squares that bear in individual letters, the inscription " NIAGARA ". The frieze is supported by greater boom, alternating with smaller ones.

The rows of windows are different. On the second floor are arched windows, the middle window protrudes and is supplemented with top with battlements and diamond-shaped skylights. Above the ground floor, a molded stone cornice with the inscription " 1810 NIAGARA 1909 ".

Brick pilasters frame the main gate of the garage. Inside the tiled floor, the fireman's pole made ​​of brass and the floor covering have been preserved.

History

The fire department, which eventually evolved into the Niagara Engine, was founded in 1810, after which the façade inscription suggesting; but she was only in 1847 that name. At least six different fire departments were over the city's history, the Niagara is the only one of the more building is available.

The local architect Percival M. Lloyd, who was previously the eclectic building of the Lady Washington Hose Company in the Academy Street a little further south projected, in 1909 hired to plan the building of the Niagara Engine. His building combines various elements of late Gothic architecture, as they were applied in the United States in numerous public buildings in the early 20th century ... the outstanding center yoke, the roof battlements, stone lintels, molded eaves and arches, the cornice between the two lower floors and a fake basement.

After the fire has left the building, a private operator of ambulance vehicles is drawn, which made the features of the building intact.