Old Fire Station #18

Architects: Charles Bebb Louis Mendel
Year: 1911
City: Seattle, WA

Old Fire Station #18 went up in 1911 at 5427 Russell Ave NW, designed by the Seattle firm of Charles Bebb and Louis Mendel. The city landmarked it in 1976, and it has since been converted away from firefighting duty, one of Ballard's small stock of adaptive-reuse survivors from that era.

the architect

Charles Bebb and Louis Mendel practiced together as a Seattle architectural firm in the early 1900s, and Old Fire Station #18 stands as one of their surviving works from that partnership.

significance

The station is an individually designated Seattle City Landmark (#11), listed on December 13, 1976, and survives today converted to another use — a rare trace of the city's early fire-department building stock.

nearby

Magnolia Library 1.8 mi · Mid-Century Modern · 1964
Seventh Church of Christ (former) 1.9 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1926
Arabian Theatre 2.1 mi · Moorish / Mudéjar
Home of the Good Shepherd 2.4 mi · Neoclassical
Ballard/Howe House 2.9 mi · Colonial Revival
Queen Anne High School 2.9 mi · Neoclassical · 1909

All 88 buildings in Seattle