{"nrhp_refnum":"89001541","name":"Moody Street Fire Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"533 Moody St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.36729487300005,"lon":-71.23791368699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick fire station at 533 Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, built 1890-92 and reopened in 1901 after a fire, designed by local architect Samuel Patch.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the more intact of two identically designed Waltham fire stations and an example of Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival municipal architecture. It is tied to the late 19th century municipal building program and the rapid growth of the South Side. It meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"Moody Street Fire Station, at 533 Moody Street in Waltham, is a brick municipal building begun in 1890 and completed in 1892. Local architect Captain Samuel Patch designed it in an eclectic Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival manner, with W.N. Hanson as builder. It has a boxy rectangular block, tall paired corbelled chimneys, a pyramid-capped hose drying tower, recessed brick panels, and rock-faced granite lintels over three large garage doors. A plaque above the central second-floor window reads 1890 W.F.D. A fire on October 5, 1900 left only the brick walls standing, and the station reopened on June 30, 1901. It was part of the building program that followed Waltham's incorporation in 1884, which also produced schools and a police station. It is the better preserved of two identical stations modeled on Patch's earlier Lexington Street design, and it reflects the growth of the city's South Side.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect Captain Samuel Patch; builder W.N. Hanson","architectural_style":"Queen Anne / Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Recorded as a present fire station in good condition with no major alterations; the interior was rebuilt after a 1900 fire.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.369725-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7918/63791851/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001541.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001541/d7a57ac99e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001541/d7a57ac99e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalthamMA_MoodyStreetFireStation.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:WalthamMA_MoodyStreetFireStation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791851","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody_Street_Fire_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/moody-street-fire-station-89001541/"}