Engine Company No. 29 (Palisades Firehouse)
- Architect
- Albert L. Harris
- Year
- 1925
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Engine Company 29, the Palisades Firehouse, went up in 1925 at 4811 MacArthur Boulevard NW to a design by Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris. It was the city's first one-story firehouse and one of two prototype Colonial Revival stations built that year, after the fire department finished converting to all-motorized apparatus and could spread its buildings over a single floor on cheaper outlying land.
the building
T-shaped plan and hose tower. Following neo-Georgian principles, the front-gabled brick main block is symmetrically composed, with the dormitory wing pushed to one side to create a T-shaped plan. A four-story hose tower rises alongside the main block.
the style
Built in the Colonial Revival style, the Palisades Firehouse was one of two prototypes the DC fire department built in 1925 as it shifted to one-story stations for the automobile age — the DC Office of Planning calls it among Municipal Architect Albert Harris's most successful designs.
More on Colonial Revivalthe architect
Albert L. Harris served as the District of Columbia's Municipal Architect; this firehouse is considered one of his most successful designs, per the DC Office of Planning.
significance
The firehouse was designated a DC historic landmark on July 22, 2004, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
nearby
- Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct
- Glen Hurst
- Kreeger Museum
- Hillandale (Main Residence & Gatehouse)
- Georgetown University, Astronomical Observatory
- Bazelon-McGovern House