{"nrhp_refnum":"01000851","name":"Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse","other_names":["Second Avenue Fire House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Second Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bay Shore","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.724926949000064,"lon":-73.24573092499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one and one-half story wood-framed former volunteer firehouse on the east side of Second Avenue in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York, built in 1886 or 1887 with a bell tower and a hose drying tower.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it reflects Bay Shore's late 19th-century growth and the rising need for organized community services (Criterion A). It is also an intact, representative example of an increasingly rare building type, the small neighborhood firehouse (Criterion C).","narrative":"Built in 1886 or 1887 on Second Avenue in Bay Shore, Long Island, this small wood-framed firehouse once sheltered the hand-drawn hose wagons, hose reel and ladder wagon of a volunteer company. Its 55-foot open belfry rose well above the surrounding one and one-half to two-story houses and became a neighborhood landmark. A slender hose drying tower allowed canvas hoses to be hung and dried after use. Ornament is spare, limited to a saw-tooth band of vertical boards beneath the eaves and a dentil cornice on the bell tower. Motorized equipment made such buildings obsolete, and by 1914 a centralized district facility had replaced it. The building later served as a synagogue, for light manufacturing and as a rooming house. Restoration in 1999-2000 removed asphalt siding and later alterations, installed a concrete foundation and rebuilt the towers from historic photographs. It is listed as evidence of Bay Shore's growth and as a surviving example of a rare building type.","period_of_significance":"c1887","architect_builder":"Not Known","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Stick/Eastlake","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1999-2000, including a new concrete foundation and reconstructed towers; proposed use is gallery and residential space for an artist-in-residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.206352-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000851.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000851/90008f8721-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000851/90008f8721-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Shore_Hose_Company_No._1_Firehouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Shore_Hose_Company_No._1_Firehouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Shore_Hose_Company_No._1_Firehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4874097"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/bay-shore-hose-company-no-1-firehouse-01000851/"}