Fire Engine Company No. 33

Architect: Ernest Flagg
Style: Beaux-Arts
City: Manhattan, NY

Fire Engine Company No. 33's firehouse at 44 Great Jones Street is a Beaux-Arts building completed in 1899 by Ernest Flagg and Walter B. Chambers. Engine Company 33, first organized in 1865 on Mercer Street, moved to this location in 1899, and Ladder Company 9 joined it in 1948.

the building

September 11 losses. Ten of the fourteen firefighters from this house who responded to the World Trade Center were killed in the September 11 attacks.

the style

Ernest Flagg and Walter B. Chambers gave the firehouse a Beaux-Arts facade, a formal architectural treatment unusual for a working firehouse of its era.

the architect

Ernest Flagg designed the building with Walter B. Chambers in 1899.

significance

The firehouse is a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-00468), designated 11/12/1968, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

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Robbins & Appleton Building 0.1 mi · Second Empire · 1880
The Public Theater building 0.1 mi · Romanesque Revival · 1849

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