Engine Company No. 23 (Foggy Bottom Firehouse)
- Architect
- Snowden Ashford
- Year
- 1910
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Engine Company 23 is a firehouse built in 1910 in Foggy Bottom, a collaboration between the Washington firm Hornblower & Marshall and District of Columbia Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford. The two-story building now sits on the campus of George Washington University near Kogan Plaza.
the building
Segmental arches and limestone. The firehouse's vehicle bays are framed by segmental-arched openings, and the facade carries a quoined limestone frontispiece — dressed-up masonry detail on an otherwise workaday municipal building.
the style
Described as both Renaissance Revival and Italianate in style, the firehouse pairs round-headed, segmental-arched openings and quoined limestone trim with the plain brick walls typical of turn-of-the-century DC fire stations.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Snowden Ashford served as the District of Columbia's Municipal Architect and worked with the local firm Hornblower & Marshall on this firehouse.
significance
It was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2005 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
nearby
- Earley, John J., Office and Studio
- Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University)
- George Washington University, President's Office
- Underwood, Oscar S., House
- Concordia German Evangelical Church and Rectory
- 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue