Fabulous Firehouses become Homes and Businesses

[mack]

Unknown volunteer firehouse - 323 W 21st St   Chelsea  (approx 1865-1875)



http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/search/label/chelsea
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Chelsea_Fire_House_323_West_21st_St.jpg


323 W. 21st St: - property rented by Andy Warhol

[kfd274]

carriage house (1880s/1920), 31 Pineapple Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York by lumierefl, on Flickr


"Converted Brooklyn Fire Department stable • building conversion completed 1920, 11 years after first motorized fire apparatus in NYC"   Sold in 2003 for $1.6 M   

[mack]

Active Hook and Ladder 1   Northern Blvd and 250 St   Little Neck (1905-1929)

Volunteer company firehouse:


Currently a real estate office:

[mack]

Engine 285/Ladder 142  103-17 98th Street  (built 1915 - still active)

Past:



Present:

[mack]

Engine 79/Ladder 37 firehouse   2928 Briggs Ave  (built 1904 for Engine 79/Ladder 37 formed 1908 - still active firehouse)

Historic:


Current:

[mack]

Engine 286 - original firehouse - 74-01 Cypress Hill St (1913) - former firehouse of volunteer company Ivanhoe Ladder 10



http://www.timesnewsweekly.com/sites/www.timesnewsweekly.com/files/archives/Archives2001/091301/NewFiles/OURNEIGH.html

Currently private home:

[guitarman314]

Engine 285/Ladder 142  103-17 98th Street  (built 1915 - still active)

Past:



Present:

E285/L142 is similar to E94/L48 and E268/L137

[mack]

Hose Company 15 (volunteer companies Victory and Fulton)/Hook and Ladder 4 (Eagle)  - former firehouse -  Eldridge St  (Hose Co 15 1847-1859, H&L 4 1850-1864)





Hose Company 15 LODDs:
    Fireman Wall - killed responding to fire
    Fireman Robert McCausland - killed responding to fire
    Fireman James Glasgow - killed April 15, 1840 by collapse at match factory fire (with a member of Engine 30)

Current use as restaurant:

[mack]

Great Kills Engine 1/Constitution H&L 1 - Staten Island volunteer companies - firehouse - 22 Hillside Terrace  Great Kills  (organized 1890)

Constitution H&L 1:


Firehouse currently Knights of Columbus Hall:



http://kofc1662.webs.com/partyhallrental.htm

[mack]

Ladder 8 - current firehouse - 14 N Moore St (built 1905 - renovated 1915)

Originally built to house the 2-section ladder company, the firehouse was cut in half in 1915 to accommodate the widening of Varick Street.

Original double ladder company firehouse:


Current L8 firehouse:


Ladder 8 history:
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/11/1904-hook-and-ladder-company-no-8-14.html

Hook & Ladder No. 8 firehouse was used for exterior shots of the Ghostbusters' Headquarters in both the original movie and the sequel. 

Note - Thanks to Gman for photo correction.

[kfd274]

Mack,

That's a great story about "cutting"  the house in half and the heroism of the FFs

Thanks

KFD

[guitarman314]

Ladder 8 - current firehouse - 14 N Moore St (built 1905 - renovated 1915)

Originally built to house the 2-section ladder company, the firehouse was cut in half in 1915 to accommodate the widening of Varick Street.

Original double ladder company firehouse:


Current L8 firehouse:


Ladder 8 history:
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/11/1904-hook-and-ladder-company-no-8-14.html

Hook & Ladder No. 8 firehouse was used for exterior shots of the Ghostbusters' Headquarters in both the original movie and the sequel.

The top photo is not Ladder 8 but actually Ladder 2's old double firehouse at 126 E. 50th St.

[mack]

Engine 38/L51  3446 Eastchester Rd  - current Bronx firehouse built in 1928

Firehouse neighboorhood when built:


Current:

[mack]

Citizens Engine Company 1/Amicitia H&L 1 -  3 firehouses - Princes Bay SI  (1900-1937)

Workers from SS White Dental Works factory formed these two volunteer fire companies to provide fire protection for the Pleasant Plains/Princes Bay sections of SI.  They responded to alarms from Mt Loretto-Tottenville to Annadale.  The responses were made with equipment pulled by hand or by horses, until motorized in the 1920s.  Alarms were sounded by a whistle at SS White.  Both companies disbanded in 1937 when Engine 164 and Ladder 84 were organized in Huguenot.

1st firehouse - 6225 Amboy Rd: 

Today a beauty shop:


2nd firehouse - 6054 Amboy Rd:

Today (former Princes Bay NY Public Library branch:


3rd Firehouse was building next door to 2nd firehouse - Amiticia Hall -   

Amicitia H&L 1 posing in front of 3rd firehouse.

Notes about SS White, which supported fire companies:
   - by 1890s - the largest employer on SI
   - by 1920s, the largest maker of dental equipment in the world
   - closed as manufacturing facility in 1972
   - converted to a Factory Center trade mart and discount outlet center which proved to be unsuccessful
   - closed in 1982
   - vacant buildings were location of many fires for Bn 23 units
   - 2nd alarm suspicious fire caused remaining buildings to be razed in 1986
 

http://www.silive.com/specialreports/index.ssf/2011/03/ss_white_was_supplying_the_wor.html

[mack]

Engine 55/Division 1 - 185 Lafayette St  - original firehouse  (E 55  1887-1899/Division 1  1900-1906)

Currently a $4.5M single family home:



http://ostrovrealty.com/lafayette185/photos.shtml

Drawing of original firehouse:


Don Holt's excellent FDNY site explains that E55's original 4 story quarters was built on an existing Elm St when the company was formed in 1887.  Lafayette St was extended and the street widening forced the relatively new firehouse to be shortened which made quarters no longer functional for an engine company.   Division 1 used the firehouse for a few years after E 55 moved to their new quarters on Broome St.

http://nyfd.com/manhattan_engines/engine_55.html

Engine 55's current firehouse at 363 Broome St (1899-present). Firehouse also housed Battalion 2 and Division 2 at various times:





http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/01/fire-engine-company-55-363-broome.html