{"nrhp_refnum":"96000554","name":"Firthcliffe Firehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"196 Willow Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cornwall","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.44153857400005,"lon":-74.04126239599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story brick firehouse with a slate hip roof and bell tower at 196 Willow Avenue in the village of Firthcliffe, town of Cornwall, Orange County, New York, believed to have been built about 1900.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is architecturally significant as a distinctive, well-preserved example of a small turn-of-the-century firehouse. It shows typical features of the type, including brick construction, a wide engine door, a bell tower and a location close to the community it served. It is also an important local example of small-scale civic architecture built in Cornwall's hamlets in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Built around 1900 in the hamlet of Firthcliffe, this small brick firehouse at 196 Willow Avenue in Cornwall, Orange County, was meant to protect a community that grew up around the Firthcliffe Mills on Moodna Creek. The square, one-story building has a slate hip roof, a square bell tower on four brick pillars, and a stone watercourse separating the main floor from a concrete basement. A bell-flared gable on exposed wood rafters covers the former engine entrance, which has since been filled in with a window. Inside, a fireman's pole and a wood stair to the bell tower and attic remain, though removable partitions have been added to the once open room. Its size, suited to a single engine, suggests it served a small area. It was listed for architecture as a well-preserved, distinctive example of a small early-twentieth-century firehouse and of the modest civic buildings erected across Cornwall's hamlets during a period of commercial growth. The building is now used as a specialty store.","period_of_significance":"ca.1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"OTHER","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic fire station now used for commercial/specialty store purposes; the interior has had removable wood partitions added and the original engine doors replaced with a window and wall.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.268862-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000554.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000554/75dbeda1c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000554/75dbeda1c9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firthcliffe_Firehouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Firthcliffe_Firehouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314203","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firthcliffe_Firehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5454311"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/firthcliffe-firehouse-96000554/"}