Fire Engine Company No. 31
- Architect
- Napoleon LeBrun
- Year
- 1895
- City
- Manhattan, NY
Fire Engine Company No. 31 at 87 Lafayette Street was built in 1895 to designs by Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, who modeled the firehouse after early-16th-century chateaux of France's Loire Valley.
the building
Chateau styling. LeBrun & Sons gave the firehouse the look of a Loire Valley chateau, an unusually ornate reference for a working fire station.
the architect
Napoleon LeBrun & Sons designed the firehouse in 1895.
significance
Designated a New York City Landmark in 1966 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The FDNY vacated the building in November 1972; it is now occupied by the Downtown Community Television Center.
nearby
- The Tombs
- 254-260 Canal Street
- New York Life Insurance Company Building
- 361 Broadway Building
- 359 Broadway Building
- Kitchen, Montross & Wilcox Store