{"nrhp_refnum":"73002224","name":"Fire Station No. 1","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13 E. Church Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.270068528000024,"lon":-79.93980431999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A municipal firehouse at 13 East Church Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia, built 1907-08 and designed by the Lynchburg firm Huggins and Bates.","why_significant":"It is presented as an excellent example of Edwardian-era firehouse architecture, with a richly embellished facade in the English Renaissance style of Sir Christopher Wren. It survives almost completely unaltered and gives rare insight into the life of an early-twentieth-century fireman. It is also described as a monument to the civic pride of early Roanoke.","narrative":"Fire Station No. One, at 13 East Church Avenue in Roanoke, is a brick firehouse completed by 1908 and designed by the Lynchburg firm Huggins and Bates. Its facade is built of smooth pressed brick over a rusticated ground floor, with a wood Corinthian cornice, terra cotta pilaster capitals and a pedimented cupola with an arcaded belfry and small dome. A tall hose tower rises at the rear. Inside, the first-floor concrete is ridged to give horses traction, the ceilings are stamped metal, and brass poles drop from the second floor. Upstairs are a large sleeping room with built-in lockers and two haylofts with hoists. The station still operates as a firehouse and has seen few alterations. It was recognized as an excellent example of Edwardian-era firehouse design and as a rare record of early-twentieth-century firefighting life. It also reflects the civic pride of a young Roanoke, whose designers aimed to give the city a dignified building.","period_of_significance":"1907-08","architect_builder":"Huggins and Bates (Lynchburg architectural firm)","architectural_style":"Edwardian era firehouse; English Renaissance style of Sir Christopher Wren","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operating firehouse in good condition, maintained in a good state of repair; owned by the City of Roanoke.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.087306-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/6833/41683319/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002224.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002224/1ef06ac15e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002224/1ef06ac15e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cowpie21","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roanoke_City_Fire_Station_No._1_Side_Angle.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cowpie21</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:Roanoke_City_Fire_Station_No._1_Side_Angle.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000978","name":"Roanoke Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/roanoke-downtown-historic-district-02000978/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683319","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Station_No._1_(Roanoke,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5451468"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/fire-station-no-1-73002224/"}