- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Fire Station No. 11
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Morgan, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1857-1940
Dillon, John R. (John Robert), 1872-1938
Morgan &Dillon (Firm) - Date of Original:
- 1998
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Fulton County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Fire stations
Municipal services
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
fire stations
beaux-arts (style)
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- From the National Register for Historic Places application form prepared by Elizabeth A. Lyon, Ph.D., Chief Historic Preservation Section Acting State Historic Preservation Officer: The Atlanta Fire Station #11, built in 1907, is significant in Atlanta architectural and urban history, one of few remaining two-story stations in the city. Its location marks the northward residential and business growth of Atlanta around the turn of the twentieth century. According to a 1917 history of the Atlanta Fire Department, it "was sorely needed to care for the immense residence district which had grown up over a vast area in the northern section of the city." The coverage of this station extended north between Peachtree and Williams to the city limits. Just ten years earlier, the exact site of the firehouse had been approximately eleven blocks north of existing Atlanta fire limits. Designed by the prominent Atlanta architectural firm of Morgan &Dillon, the style of this fire station is restrained Beaux-Arts, which was popular around the turn of the century for public buildings. This period also marked the end of the horse-drawn era. Significant elements that contribute to the architectural significance of this station include a now-bricked-up hay-delivery entrance, and visible indications of where harnesses were hung over the garage entrance. Horses were trained to respond to the sound of the fire bell by moving out into this open area, underneath their harnesses, which were then quickly lowered onto and cinched around them. The two-story design of the station also reflects the early history of fire-station design. Shortly after the construction of this station, the one-story bungalow-type fire house became the predominant style, mostly due to the introduction of motorized fire trucks and increasing concern about the injuries occurring from the use of fire poles. Still in use at the station as late as the 1970s were two of the original three fire poles as well as an original fire-alarm bell. Fire Station #11 marks an important period in the design of fire stations with the age of the automobile as well as an Important demographic movement in Atlanta's tum-of-the-century growth. Variant names include: Fire Station No. 11. See ref# 80001073 (Fire Station No. 11) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_418
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_418#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_418/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
