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Palmer Fire School

Coordinates: 35°26′15″N 82°13′45″W / 35.43750°N 82.22917°W / 35.43750; -82.22917
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Palmer Fire School
Palmer Fire School, January 2005
Palmer Fire School is located in North Carolina
Palmer Fire School
Palmer Fire School is located in the United States
Palmer Fire School
Location2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates35°26′15″N 82°13′45″W / 35.43750°N 82.22917°W / 35.43750; -82.22917
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1938 (1938), 1940
Built byCity of Charlotte Engineering Dept.
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.04000906[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 25, 2004

Palmer Fire School, also known as Firemen's Hall, is a historic school complex for firefighters located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The complex consists of the 1940, one-story, rock-faced assembly hall and the 1938, six-story, red-brick training tower. The assembly hall is a Late Gothic Revival style building, five bays wide with a stuccoed, crenellated parapet and projecting end bays. Its construction was funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and was the only drill school for firemen funded by the WPA.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Mattson, Alexander & Associates, Inc. (February 2004). "Palmer Fire School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.