Palmer Fire School Explained

Palmer Fire School
Location:2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.4375°N -82.2292°W
Built:, 1940
Builder:City of Charlotte Engineering Dept.
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Added:August 25, 2004
Refnum:04000906

Palmer Fire School, also known as Firemen's Hall, is a historic school complex for firefighters located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The complex consists of the 1940, one-story, rock-faced assembly hall and the 1938, six-story, red-brick training tower. The assembly hall is a Late Gothic Revival style building, five bays wide with a stuccoed, crenellated parapet and projecting end bays. Its construction was funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and was the only drill school for firemen funded by the WPA.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mattson, Alexander . Associates, Inc. . amp . Palmer Fire School. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . February 2004. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.