Washington Firehouse No. 5

Washington Firehouse No. 5

Infobox_nrhp | name =Fire Station No. 5
nrhp_type =


caption = The building in 2008, currently used to house a legal firm.
location= 7 North Lawrence Street
Mobile, Alabama
lat_degrees = 30
lat_minutes = 41
lat_seconds = 24.54
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 88
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 54.11
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1851
architect=
architecture= Greek Revival
added = December 22, 1983cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-27|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=83003462

Washington Firehouse No. 5 is a historic fire station in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The two-story brick Greek Revival building was built in 1851 at a cost of $5,500. It was constructed to house the privately run Washington Fire Company.cite web|title="Dauphin Street Virtual Walking Tour"|work="Main Street Mobile"|url=http://www.mainstreetmobile.org/html/guide/walking.html| accessdate=2008-03-27] The building features a Doric distyle-in-antis arrangement at the street level supporting an upper story with jib windows opening onto a cantilevered iron balcony.Gamble, Robert "Historic architecture in Alabama: a guide to styles and types, 1810-1930", page 70. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. ISBN 0817311343.] The building was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936cite web|title="Washington Fire Engine Company No. 5"|work="Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)"|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al0609|accessdate=2008-03-27] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1983.

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Mobile County, Alabama

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