Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)

The Central Fire Station is a historic fire station on 40 Pleasant Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. Built in 1884–85, the three-story brick mansard-roofed Second Empire building included several "firsts". It was the first brick firehouse in the city, and it was the nation's first firehouse to be electrified, receiving its power via an underground cable from a nearby power plant that had been built under the supervision of Thomas Alva Edison.^[2]

Central Fire Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Central Fire Station
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Location	Brockton, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°5′6″N 71°1′17″W
Built	1885
Architect	Waldo V. Howard
Architectural style	Second Empire
NRHP reference No.	77000193 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 25, 1977

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1]

Station 1 houses 4 fire apparatus, the Deputy Chief's command car, The Rescue, Squad A, and Ladder 1.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Central Fire Station". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2014-05-12.