Taylor Square Firehouse
- Architect
- Charles R. Greco
- Year
- 1904
- City
- Boston, MA
The Taylor Square Firehouse at 113 Garden Street was built in 1904 to a design by local architect Charles R. Greco, and it is the most elaborate of the fire stations Cambridge built during that era. Brick and stylistically eclectic, it dresses up a standard fire-station floor plan in an unexpected range of architectural borrowings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
the building
Moorish arches over the truck bays. The building's standard fire-station plan is topped with exotic detailing: a projecting cornice on large wooden brackets, patterned brickwork across the parapet, and Moorish Revival ornament worked into the arches of the truck bays.
the style
Greco treated a utilitarian building type as an occasion for architectural showmanship, mixing a fairly standard firehouse plan with Moorish Revival arches over the truck bays, patterned brickwork, and heavy wooden cornice brackets, an eclecticism unusual for fire stations of the period.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized as the most elaborate fire station Cambridge built during that period.
nearby
- Asa Gray House
- Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
- H. Langford Warren House
- William Dean Howells House
- J.A. Noyes House
- Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall