Court Street Firehouse | |
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| Location | 311 W. Court St.,Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 39°6′19″N84°31′10″W / 39.10528°N 84.51944°W /39.10528; -84.51944 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001510[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 18, 1974 |
TheFire Museum of Greater Cincinnati, also known as theCincinnati Fire Museum, preserves and exhibits GreaterCincinnati, Ohio'sfirefighting artifacts and honors firefighters, both past and present.
Over 200 years of firefighting history is on display in the Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati.[2] Exhibits include examples of early leather fire buckets, an 1808 fire drum, the oldest survivingfire engine in Cincinnati, and an 1836 hand pumper. The museum also features and interactive exhibit that allows visitors to experience a modern Emergency-One fire engine cab by wailing the siren, ringing the bell, and flashing the lights.
Thefire museum is housed in the restored 1906Court Street Firehouse at 315 West Court Street (near Plum Street inDowntown Cincinnati).[3] The firehouse was part of theCincinnati Fire Department. The Court Street Firehouse is a registered historic building, listed in theNational Register on July 18, 1974.
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