{"nrhp_refnum":"89001317","name":"Wollaston Fire Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 Beale St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.25954397900006,"lon":-71.01211854199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Italianate fire station built in 1900 at 111 Beale Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, at the base of Wollaston Hill. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The station is tied to late-19th-century municipal improvements made as Quincy's residential neighborhoods expanded. It is the oldest extant fire station in Quincy and the only one of its period to survive. It is a well-preserved example of Italianate design applied to a public building, with its tall tower serving as a local landmark.","narrative":"Wollaston Fire Station, at 111 Beale Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, was built in 1900 and remains an active fire station. It sits at the base of Wollaston Hill, and its tall square tower is a local landmark. The brick building rests on a granite foundation and basement and has a slate hip roof, arched ground-floor windows, and a granite string course between the floors. The tower carries a low pyramidal tile roof, an arched arcade and corbelled brick panels. In 1957 the original arched entry doors on the Beale Street front were replaced with rectangular openings to fit new fire trucks, a change that did not harm the building's character. Quincy's rapid growth in the late 19th century led to several large neighborhood fire stations replacing older wooden ones. This is the only one from that period to survive, and it is the city's oldest extant fire station. It was listed for its link to those municipal improvements and for its Italianate design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in active use as a fire station; condition described as good. Central doors were replaced in 1957.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.042974-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7925/63792582/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001317.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001317/b74e467546-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001317/b74e467546-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wollaston_Fire_Station_Quincy_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:Wollaston_Fire_Station_Quincy_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792582","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston_Fire_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8030316"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/wollaston-fire-station-89001317/"}