Engine House No. 9 | |
Location: | 611 N. Pine St., Tacoma, Washington |
Coordinates: | 47.256°N -122.4733°W |
Built: | 1907 |
Added: | July 30, 1975 |
Refnum: | 75001866 |
Engine House No. 9 in Tacoma, Washington, is a fire station built in 1907. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
It hosted horse-drawn fire equipment from 1908 until the first motorized equipment was bought in 1919. When eventually a replacement station was being completed, the 1965 Puget Sound earthquake shook the building and it was abruptly abandoned. It was reopened in 1973 as a restaurant and bar and was "the city's first historic building to be restored and put to a commercial use by private enterprise."[1]
The building remains a neighborhood restaurant and also houses an award-winning microbrewery of the same name.