EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY FIRE STATIONS: THE FEASIBILITY OF CONTINUED OPERATION AS FIRE STATIONS

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Cleave, Kirk E.
dc.contributor.authorWasielewski, Shannon Peterson
dc.contributor.programMA in Historic Preservationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-29T16:09:02Z
dc.date.available2016-06-29T16:09:02Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThis thesis has as the underlying premise that historic fire stations are architecturally and historically significant buildings. With that in mind, it examines the feasibility of continued operation of historic fire stations by twenty-first-century municipal fire departments and the ability of historic firehouses to accommodate the apparatus and personnel of these modem departments. The thesis is organized into five basic chapters. The first is a brief overview of the history of the fire service in the United States and the architectural history of fire stations. In order to accurately evaluate the feasibility of continued operation of historic fire stations, Chapter ll describes the modem fire department: its personnel, its practices and its apparatus. With this information, the paper explores where modem needs coincide or conflict with the realities of working within an existing station in the third chapter. In Chapter N, these constraints and opportunities are illustrated through a case study of continuously operating historic stations in Nashville, Tennessee, followed by an analysis and recommendations for continued use in Chapter V. The thesis demonstrates that continued operation of historic fire stations is feasible in communities where fire department officials are willing to work creatively within the historic firehouse and its site.en_US
dc.format.extent95 p.en_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M25F6Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/3058
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsTo view a complete copy of this thesis please contact Goucher College Special Collections & Archives at archives@goucher.edu or (410) 337-6075.
dc.subject.lcshHistoric preservation -- Theses
dc.subject.lcshFire stations -- Conservation and restoration.
dc.subject.lcshHistoric buildings -- Conservation and restoration.
dc.subject.lcshFire stations -- United States -- History.
dc.titleEARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY FIRE STATIONS: THE FEASIBILITY OF CONTINUED OPERATION AS FIRE STATIONSen_US
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