Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati, also known as the Cincinnati Fire Museum, preserves and exhibits Greater Cincinnati, Ohio's firefighting artifacts and honors firefighters, both past and present.”
Wikipedia article Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.74001510- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 5,866 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Court Street Firehouse between 1819 and
1975: 2,843 Fungi, 1,725 Animalia, 949 Plantae, 298 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Court Street Firehouse: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
3,528 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
125 feet, is built of load-bearing grey/buff brick and dressed sand- arches at first floor level, are filled by two pairs of double doors Co No 1". Mithin the arches on the second floor, there are two pairs mullions. The arches are constructed with a Gibbs Surround of rusti- FEB 1 2 1974 CONDITION REGISTER Excellent NATIONAL ily moulded stone belt course with acanthus leaf decoration demarcates the second floor level.
half octagonal stone columns, which also support the carved stone arch- the windows is a carved stone Italianate cornice, embellishied with scroll.The facade is terminated with an Italianate cornice, similar This building occupies the whole of a rectangular site which runs both streets, the main facade is on Court Street.On the first floor cated stone and each arch has a keystone carved in a of1/1windows which have moulded stone architrave trims also and stone (Check One) dentils, more egg and dart moulding, decorated brackets, and five onto the east wall;at the other end a large carved bracket terminates The Richmond Street elevation differs in style from that on Court edon the east bya narrow alley.The building,which is 52 feetx ed stone coping. to that on Court with a shallower brick parapet.
left one bears the inscription "Tool Wagon No 1";and the X Good X Original Site Above Street. It is a two bay facade with a strong vertical, rather than Nn the second floor are five centrally positioned, round arched 1/1 horizontal, emphasis. Each bay has a two story segmental arch. These Moved Fair These doorways are surrounded by fluted stone architraves with sash windows with carved stone spandrels below.
was then the heavily populated hest End, and until its deactivation in 1962, it was the busiest station in the city. Engine Co. 45 had done with the Forryville Firehouse, needs to be explored. 1906-1907 Conservation Architecture Commerce REGISTER Aboriginal Science Engineering Theater Communications losophy Music itarian Art Agriculture Prehistoric Religion/Phi NATIONAL Military Literature Transportation Education Sculpture Social/Human- Industry Landscape the Southern Sector also used this as his headquarters.Tool Wagon Political RECEIVED Fire Departments Hall, and the developing Queensgate II area makes it accessible to a sponded to calls from all parts of the city.
This fire station was the former base for Engine Co.45,which was Invention he designedin Cincinnati early in the 2oth Century. into a new home for the fire museum or perhaps a restaurant, as was No.1and Fuel Fo.No.1operated from the Richmond Street side. is a good example of the early 2oth Century Ren- one of the two largest pumpers in the city, and as a result, it re- AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE(Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) At the time it was built in what FEB 1 2 1974 Fuel Co. No. 1 was used to supply coal to the steam pumpers until SIGNIFICANCE aissance Revival Mode.Harry Hake was the architect and supervisor 1917 when gasoline driven pumpers came into use.
ofconstruction.It is a good extant example of several such station$ the Court Street Firehouse is not in use presently, it has a good The Cincinnati Fire Department was the first professional fire depart+ side was also used for storage. housed in the basement of the firehouse at 9th and Broadway.Though ment in the United States.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001510, 26 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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