{"nrhp_refnum":"80002837","name":"Central Fire Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"318 N. Greene St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07601437900007,"lon":-79.79102977199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red-brick municipal fire station with carved granite ornamentation on the northern edge of Greensboro's central business district, North Carolina. It was designed in 1925 by Charles C. Hartmann and completed in 1926 by contractor Charles W. Angle.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is significant for its association with the growth of Greensboro in the early twentieth century and the development of improved municipal fire protection after the city's paid department was established. It also cites its architecture as a distinctive example of Classical or Renaissance Revival municipal design by Hartmann, the city's leading architect of the period, and its role as a landmark anchoring surrounding 1920s commercial buildings.","narrative":"Built in 1925 and completed in 1926 on North Greene Street, the Central Fire Station is a two-story red-brick building with granite trim, designed by Charles C. Hartmann for the city of Greensboro. Its front pavilion has six flattened arches on granite columns framing the fire engine doors, with a recreation hall lit by paired arched windows above. The station opened the year Greensboro moved from a volunteer fire department to a fully paid force, and it housed the department's headquarters for decades. Its nine-bay plan, dormitory, hospital room, and recreation hall reflected the municipal services of the period. The nomination treats it as one of the best surviving early twentieth-century fire stations in North Carolina and a fine example of Hartmann's work. A six-story tower originally planned for hose drying was cut down above the second story in the early 1950s.","period_of_significance":"1925-1926","architect_builder":"Charles C. Hartmann (architect); Charles W. Angle (contractor)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival with Renaissance Revival flavor; basically Italian Renaissance","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Slated to be closed on July 1, 1980, with its future unclear; the upper stories of its tower were demolished in the early 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.726657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/86/7205/47720586/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002837.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002837/702c09ec93-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002837/702c09ec93-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_original_Central_Fire_Station_Building.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</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:The_original_Central_Fire_Station_Building.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720586","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Fire_Station_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460917"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/central-fire-station-80002837/"}