Congress Street Fire Station
- Architect
- Harrison Henry Atwood
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
Built in 1891 at 344 Congress Street, this Romanesque Revival fire station was designed by Harrison H. Atwood, then serving as the City of Boston's official architect. It is notable within the style for its early use of light-colored brick, with a rusticated ground floor giving way to progressively more refined detailing higher up the facade. It now operates as the Boston Fire Museum.
the building
Rising refinement. The brick facade grows more delicate as it climbs: a rusticated ground level anchors the building, with detailing becoming progressively finer toward the top, an arrangement executed in a light-colored brick unusual for Romanesque work of the period.
the style
Designed in the Romanesque Revival style then favored for civic buildings, distinguished here by its light-colored brick rather than the style's more typical dark, rough-faced stone.
More on Romanesque Revivalthe architect
Harrison H. Atwood designed the station while serving as Boston's city architect.
significance
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and later included in the Fort Point Channel Historic District in 2004.
nearby
- South Station Tower
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Richardson Block
- United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building
- Bedford Block
- Harbor Towers