. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . building is three stoiieshigh above the cellar. Thefirst story was originally appropriated to the use of Hose Company andLafayette Hook and Ladder Company No. G—the former on the south side andthe latter on the north side of the main entrance. Each company occupied aspace fifteen by ninety feet, which was divided into three rooms, the frontroom for the apparatus, the center room for their meetings, and the room inthe rear for sitting and reading. The mam entran
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . building is three stoiieshigh above the cellar. Thefirst story was originally appropriated to the use of Hose Company andLafayette Hook and Ladder Company No. G—the former on the south side andthe latter on the north side of the main entrance. Each company occupied aspace fifteen by ninety feet, which was divided into three rooms, the frontroom for the apparatus, the center room for their meetings, and the room inthe rear for sitting and reading. The mam entrance hall is eight feet inwidth, and is divided from the stairs by a pair of folding doors, which form alarge receiving vestibule. The second story is thirty feet in heighth and contains three rooms. Onelarge room is for the meeting of the representatives, the engineers and foremen,and the Exempt Firemens Association ; this room is thirty-eight feet wide andsevent3*-one feet deep ; it is ventilated, having large windows on all sides, andthe side walls recede from the adjoining buildings three feet. On each side. FIRST FIREMENS HALL.[Fulton Street, 1824.] illUftllf OUR KM; E .M E \. ; 19 of the stairway in a room II f toon feet by twenty feet for committee third story is lifteen ft»»*t in heighth, and contains the same Dumber ofppoms, and of the same size as the second story. The Large room was used for (I library and reading* room, and the small rooms for the librarian and < - inittees. All the rooms above the first story are heated witli hot-air front of t he building is (!onnec1 icut brown stone, cut in t lie best stylo of architecture is Italian, or in other words a composition of Greekami Roman details applied by the Italians to modern buildings. The outerangles are formed with rusticated quoins. The doors and windows are trimmedWith architraves, pilasters, and cornices, supported on ornamental brackets. The two verticallines of pillar
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