- Cincinnati Fire Museum
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Court Street Firehouse
Cincinnati Fire Museum - rear of building.
Location: 311 W. Court St., Cincinnati, Ohio Coordinates: 39°6′19″N 84°31′10″W / 39.10528°N 84.51944°WCoordinates: 39°6′19″N 84°31′10″W / 39.10528°N 84.51944°W Area: less than one acre Built: 1906 Architectural style: Renaissance Governing body: Local NRHP Reference#: 74001510[1] Added to NRHP: July 18, 1974 The Cincinnati Fire Museum preserves and exhibits Greater Cincinnati, Ohio's firefighting artifacts and honors firefighters, both past and present. The museum is housed in a 1907 firehouse, the Court Street Firehouse at 315 West Court Street (near Plum in downtown Cincinnati). The Court Street Firehouse is a registered historic building, listed in the National Register on July 18, 1974.
Over 200 years of firefighting history is on display in the Cincinnati Fire Museum. Exhibits include examples of early leather fire buckets, an 1808 fire drum, the oldest surviving fire engine in Cincinnati, and an Hunneman hand pumper. The museum also features and interactive exhibit that allows visitors to experience a modern Emergency-One fire engine cab by wailing the siren, ringing the bell, and flashing the lights.
Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
External links
- Cincinnati Fire Museum Official site
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