{"nrhp_refnum":"90002162","name":"Roanoke City Firehouse No. 6","other_names":["DHR File No. 128-51"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1015 Jamison Ave., SE.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.26940805000004,"lon":-79.92650527199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick firehouse at 1015 Jamison Avenue, S.E., in the Belmont neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia, built in 1911 to a design by H. M. Miller. It resembles an American Foursquare house with Classical Revival details.","why_significant":"The firehouse is tied to the early-twentieth-century shift from horse-drawn to motorized fire apparatus, and it was among the first Roanoke stations to receive an automobile fire steamer. It was also designed to blend with the residential architecture of the Belmont suburb. It is one of two surviving firehouses of the three built in 1911.","narrative":"Built in 1911 at 1015 Jamison Avenue, S.E., Roanoke City Firehouse No. 6 was designed by architect H. M. Miller to look like a large Foursquare house so that it would fit into the growing Belmont neighborhood. The two-story, three-bay brick building has a hipped roof, keystones and jack arches over its openings, a pressed-metal ceiling, bronze firepoles, and original wooden lockers for the firemen. A tall hose-drying compartment attached to one corner is styled like a chimney stack. The station was one of the first in Roanoke to receive motorized equipment, including the city's first automobile fire steamer, at a time when horse-drawn apparatus was being phased out. It was one of three identical-design stations placed in service on September 5, 1911, and only two of those survive. The station served Belmont for about sixty-eight years until a larger replacement opened in 1979. Today the building hosts community meetings.","period_of_significance":"1911-1940","architect_builder":"Miller, Homer M.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Replaced as a fire station by a new building in 1979; now used as a meeting place for community groups. The basement is empty.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.75224-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/6833/41683355/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002162/798c14fa2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002162/798c14fa2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROANOKE_CITY_FIREHOUSE_NO._6_ROANOKE_CITY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:ROANOKE_CITY_FIREHOUSE_NO._6_ROANOKE_CITY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683355","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_City_Firehouse_No._6","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16899381"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/roanoke-city-firehouse-no-6-90002162/"}