Palmer Fire School

2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina. County/parish: Mecklenburg.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 25, 2004. NRIS 04000906.

1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • Firemen's Hall

From Wikipedia:

Palmer Fire School

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.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721394