{"nrhp_refnum":"72000871","name":"Firehouse, Engine Company 33","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"44 Great Jones St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72702665700007,"lon":-73.99260431299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick and stone fire house at 44 Great Jones Street in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1898 and still used as a fire house by the city Fire Department.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is architecturally important as one of the few surviving buildings by Ernest Flagg, designed with his junior partner Walter B. Chambers. Its monumental arched facade and decorative detail are cited as distinguishing features. It also represents the long tradition of organized firefighting in Manhattan.","narrative":"Engine Company 33 occupies a four-story brick fire house at 44 Great Jones Street in Manhattan, completed in 1898. Ernest Flagg designed it with his junior partner Walter B. Chambers, both trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Flagg is also known for the Singer Building and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. The facade is organized around a monumental stone-trimmed arch that rises three floors above a rusticated stone base with two large vehicle doorways. Brick laid in English bond forms the main wall surface. A carved cartouche marks the keystone, decorative metalwork fills the second-floor windows, and a pediment defines the third-floor window group. A deep metal cornice on paired brackets carries a cresting of anthemia and fleur-de-lis. The building was listed as one of the few surviving Flagg works and as a reminder of Manhattan firefighting, which began under Dutch rule in 1648 and became a paid service in 1865. It remains a working fire house in excellent, unaltered condition.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":"Ernest Flagg, in collaboration with Walter B. Chambers","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site; in use as a fire house and owned by the Fire Department of the City of New York.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.583042-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000871.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000871/4c2fc3f316-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000871/4c2fc3f316-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Fletcher6","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_Fire_Engine_33.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Fletcher6</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_Fire_Engine_33.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319489","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehouse,_Engine_Company_33_and_Ladder_Company_9","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5451866"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/firehouse-engine-company-33-72000871/"}