{"nrhp_refnum":"80002886","name":"Fire Station No. 2","other_names":["Old Dilworth Fire Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1212 South Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.21687405900008,"lon":-80.85179214099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick fire station at 1212 South Boulevard in the Dilworth section of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, completed in 1909 and designed for horse-drawn firefighting equipment.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the oldest surviving fire station in Charlotte and a rare, unique local example of decorative corbelled brick commercial and institutional design. It is also tied to the city's early twentieth century growth and municipal services, since Dilworth was annexed with the understanding that a station would be provided. The only significant change was removal of the horse stalls and hay racks.","narrative":"Built in 1909 on South Boulevard in Charlotte's Dilworth streetcar suburb, this two-story red brick fire station was designed with two equipment bays below and firefighters' quarters above. Charlotte architects Wheeler, Galliher and Stern drew the plans, and J. A. Jones built it for about $3,000. Its facade is notable for high arched openings, limestone keystones and bands of corbelled brick under a terra cotta-capped parapet. Inside, the concrete floor still bears hoof marks from the horses that were stalled there, and gas light fixtures and a brass pole survive. Dilworth residents had pressed the city for local fire protection, and the suburb was admitted as a borough in 1907 before the station was approved. Motorized equipment replaced horses by 1917, and a new station across the street took over in the late 1940s. As the oldest remaining fire station in Charlotte, it preserves evidence of early municipal services and decorative brick design.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Wheeler, Galliher & Stern, Architects; J. A. Jones, Contractor","architectural_style":"Early twentieth century corbelled brick commercial/institutional design","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed on the form as unoccupied and vacant, in good condition and unaltered apart from removal of horse stalls; a nonprofit fire museum group owned it and hoped to restore it as a firefighting museum.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.452296-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7212/47721245/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002886.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002886/f7ad73b00b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002886/f7ad73b00b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Big Wang","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_Station_No.2_Charlotte.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Wang</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_Station_No.2_Charlotte.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721245","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Station_No._2_(Charlotte,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461742"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/fire-station-no-2-80002886/"}