{"nrhp_refnum":"80001153","name":"City Fire Department","other_names":["AAA  Vacuum Cleaner Supply House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1338 and 1340 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.47209837100007,"lon":-84.99298438999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story yellow brick Bungalow-style fire station at 1338 and 1340 Broadway in downtown Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, built in 1920 for the City of Columbus as Fire Station No. 1.","why_significant":"The building is significant architecturally for adapting the Bungalow style, usually residential, to a community use, with a tile roof, wide eaves and Bungalow proportions. It is also significant locally as a 1920s fire station that served the downtown mills and Broadway businesses.","narrative":"Built in 1920 at 1338 and 1340 Broadway in downtown Columbus, this one-story yellow brick building began as the city's Fire Station No. 1. Its design borrows from the Bungalow style: a hipped red tile roof with hipped dormers, wide eaves, and a porch running the length of the front facade. Four square brick pillars support the porch and a central pediment, and the three-bay front has a wide central double door flanked by two doors with transoms. The station served the downtown mills and Broadway business establishments. In the early 1950s the First National Bank of Columbus converted it to a branch bank, adding a vault and leasing half the space to the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. The bank closed the branch in 1955, and the building sat empty for several years before a vacuum cleaner supply business occupied it. It is again vacant. Its significance rests on the adaptation of a residential style to a civic purpose and on its role in local fire protection.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as vacant, in fair condition, with very few alterations apart from the conversion to a branch bank.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.374207-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001153.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001153/7970f4ed0c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001153/7970f4ed0c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_Former_Fire_Department.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Columbus_Former_Fire_Department.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206438","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Fire_Department_(Columbus,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60747661"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/city-fire-department-80001153/"}