748 Massachusetts Ave., Old Number 2 Fire Station, 1991

Description:	On slide mount: 748 Massachusetts Ave., (CA), AC IHPC, March 1991 Yes Old Number 2 Fire Station748 Massachusetts Avenue(also 633 E. St. Clair Street)1871Built in 1871, this fire station was nearly identical to the old Number 1 station, which was located at the intersection of Indiana Avenue and the Canal. It is now the oldest remaining fire station in Indianapolis. The station was in continuous use until the early 1930s when the station at 636 E. 11th Street was built. Over the years, the stations across the city were numbered; Number 2 was changed to Number 8 in the late 1890s. Since the time the city sold the station, it has been used as an automobile garage.A one-story addition built along the line of Massachusetts Avenue in the late 1940s now obscures the station. The original buildings basic form was composed of the main two-story, hipped roof structure with a projecting three-story tower at the front and one-and-a-half story stable at the rear. Of eclectic design, its varied elements were chosen form many architectural styles. The main structure featured a pedimented gable with bracketed cornice, a Renaissance window with wooden tracery and stone-and-brick encircling lintel, and a large wagon door with an applied classical entablature. The adjacent hose-drying tower has lost its third story, which housed the fire bell for the northeast side of the city. The two-story rear addition on St. Clair was built between 1899 and 1908 as additional stable area and was later converted to a garage.Chatham-Arch Historic Area Preservation Plan, 1982 fire station
Origin:	1991-03
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/HT/id/1224
Collection:	Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission Image Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Geography:	Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4259418/, 39.76838, -86.15804
Subjects:	Architecture--Indiana--Indianapolis Built environment Historic districts Italianate brick stone arches lintels towers

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