{"nrhp_refnum":"74001229","name":"Cortland Fire Headquarters","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21 Court St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cortland","county":"Cortland County","state":"NY","lat":42.59919896200006,"lon":-76.17908985199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story yellow brick and tile-roofed fire station at 21 Court Street, Cortland, New York, built in 1914 as the city's first central fire station and headquarters. It was designed by Sackett and Park of Syracuse.","why_significant":"It was built as part of an early twentieth-century modernization program that merged five independent fire companies into one department and chose one central station over three smaller ones. Its elaborate exterior, with Dutch-style stepped gables uncommon in central New York, contrasts with plain interiors. It is also the only building on its street remaining from its period.","narrative":"Cortland's central fire station at 21 Court Street was completed in 1914 and combines yellow brick walls, a tiled gable roof, stepped gables with stone finials and a square bell tower. Designed by Sackett and Park, a Syracuse firm, it has stone bands and quoins, five gabled dormers on the front, and apparatus bays on the ground floor. Upstairs are firefighter quarters and a meeting hall. The station was built as part of a city modernization and expansion effort. That year five independent fire companies were merged into a single department, and the city chose one central building rather than three smaller ones to cut costs and improve coordination. Its site near the geographic center of the city mattered for that reason. The Dutch-style stepped gables are uncommon in central New York, and the detailed exterior contrasts with plain, functional interiors. It still serves as the city's main fire station and is the only building on its street surviving from its era.","period_of_significance":"1914","architect_builder":"Sackett and Park, a Syracuse firm","architectural_style":"Dutch-style stepped gables with square bell tower; no formal style name given","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and still the city's central fire protection unit; condition listed as good and altered. A later grant application concerned restoration of the clay tile roof.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.469815-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001229/42af614dbd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001229/42af614dbd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cortland_Fire_Headquarters_Aug_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</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:Cortland_Fire_Headquarters_Aug_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82001116","name":"Tompkins Street/Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/tompkins-street-main-street-historic-district-boundary-increase-82001116/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317137","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortland_Fire_Headquarters","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5173346"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cortland-county/cortland-fire-headquarters-74001229/"}