{"nrhp_refnum":"86001461","name":"Hose House No. 2","other_names":["Fire Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"30 Rantoul St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Beverly","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.543214361000025,"lon":-70.88530369999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small 2 1/2-story red brick fire station at 30 Rantoul Street, Beverly, Massachusetts, built in 1905 and designed by the Boston firm Kilham and Hopkins.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a modest, well-preserved example of the Second Renaissance Revival style by a firm well known for schools and public buildings. It also reflects Beverly's sharp growth in population and community services around the turn of the century. It was the fourth city fire station built since 1875 and the most sophisticated of Beverly's early 20th century hose houses.","narrative":"Built in 1905 at the corner of Rantoul and School Streets in Beverly, Massachusetts, Hose House #2 is a compact red brick fire station with a granite foundation and a slate pyramidal roof. Its classical details include monumental brick pilasters, a Palladian-style second-story window, paired carved brackets and a frieze inscribed \"Hose - 2 - B. F. D.\" The Boston firm Kilham and Hopkins, led by Beverly native Walter H. Kilham, designed it. It was listed as an example of the Second Renaissance Revival style and as a product of the city's municipal building program during a period when the population rose from 8,456 in 1880 to 22,561 by 1920. The station served the densely built Ward 2, with its factories, rubber works and three-decker housing. It is the most refined of Beverly's early 20th century hose houses. The brass sliding pole survives, though the interior has been heavily altered for commercial use after the station closed in the late 1970s.","period_of_significance":"1900-1999 (checked as 1900-; specific date 1905)","architect_builder":"Kilham & Hopkins, Architects","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Served downtown Beverly as a fire station into the late 1970s; now used as commercial space with an extensively altered interior.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.599294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7948/63794840/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001461.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001461/5ac9657742-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001461/5ac9657742-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BeverlyMA_HoseHouseNumberTwo.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</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:BeverlyMA_HoseHouseNumberTwo.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794840","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hose_House_No._2_(Beverly,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5907234"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/hose-house-no-2-86001461/"}