Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)

Coordinates: 42°5′6″N 71°1′17″W / 42.08500°N 71.02139°W / 42.08500; -71.02139
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Central Fire Station
Central Fire Station
Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)
Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Central Fire Station (Brockton, Massachusetts)
LocationBrockton, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°5′6″N 71°1′17″W / 42.08500°N 71.02139°W / 42.08500; -71.02139
Built1885
ArchitectWaldo V. Howard
Architectural styleSecond Empire
NRHP reference No.77000193 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 25, 1977

The Central Fire Station is a historic fire station on 40 Pleasant Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. Built in 1884–85, the three-story brick mansard-roofed Second Empire building included a number of "firsts". It was the first brick fire house in the city, and it was the nation's first fire house to be electrified, receiving its power via an underground cable from a nearby power plant that had been built under the supervision of Thomas Alva Edison.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Central Fire Station". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2014-05-12.