FDNY - Engine 14 (New York City, New York)
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
New York City, New York /
East 18th Street, 14
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ West New York
World / United States / New York
fire service, 1895_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)
3-story Beaux-Arts firehouse completed in 1895. Designed by N. LeBrun & Sons for the New York City Fire Department's Engine Company 14, It is clad in light brick with granite and terra-cotta trim, including a great deal of Italian Renaissance ornament. The ground-floor base is matte-faced light-colored granite with a polished water table. A square-headed surround contains a centrally-planned garage door, painted bright red. The door is inset behind a segmental-arched hood. The lintel reads "14 Engine 14" in raised type, flanked by scallop shells. To the east of the garage door is a window opening with a red-painted iron grille surmounted by a square opening with slats, and to the west is a bright-red wooden pedestrian door with windows and a transom surmounted by a square window. Surmounting these openings are friezes of colorful carved festoons, ribbons and paterae. The base is capped by a dentiled string course with fretwork.
The 2nd & 3rd floors, constructed of orange brick, are each pierced by one bay of three deep-set window openings. The 2nd-floor windows have a sill course, fluted stone surrounds, and a shared egg-and-dart lintel. Flanking stone facing is keyed to the brickwork. The spandrel between the second and third stories is embellished with two bronze medallions, inscribed with "A.D." at the east and "1894" at the west, and a dedication plaque at the center, bearing the names of the fire commissioners and Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, the firm which designed the building.
The 3rd-floor windows are framed at the ends by Ionic pilasters and at the center by two polished granite three-quarter Ionic columns from which an arcade springs. The windows are deeply set into square-headed openings topped by scalloped tympanums in the arches. The arcade is embellished with anthemion cresting, and an ornate entablature caps the facade, in which an iron frieze of festoons, crossed horns, and arabesques is surmounted by a cornice with scallop shells between the modillions, and lion's heads along the upper edge.
Nicknamed Sweet 14, Engine Company 14 was organized in 1865. It appears that the company was located at 15 East 18th Street until 1879, when it moved to its present location. Two stables that probably serve Engine Company 14 were formerly located at 10 and 12 East 18th Street.
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The 2nd & 3rd floors, constructed of orange brick, are each pierced by one bay of three deep-set window openings. The 2nd-floor windows have a sill course, fluted stone surrounds, and a shared egg-and-dart lintel. Flanking stone facing is keyed to the brickwork. The spandrel between the second and third stories is embellished with two bronze medallions, inscribed with "A.D." at the east and "1894" at the west, and a dedication plaque at the center, bearing the names of the fire commissioners and Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, the firm which designed the building.
The 3rd-floor windows are framed at the ends by Ionic pilasters and at the center by two polished granite three-quarter Ionic columns from which an arcade springs. The windows are deeply set into square-headed openings topped by scalloped tympanums in the arches. The arcade is embellished with anthemion cresting, and an ornate entablature caps the facade, in which an iron frieze of festoons, crossed horns, and arabesques is surmounted by a cornice with scallop shells between the modillions, and lion's heads along the upper edge.
Nicknamed Sweet 14, Engine Company 14 was organized in 1865. It appears that the company was located at 15 East 18th Street until 1879, when it moved to its present location. Two stables that probably serve Engine Company 14 were formerly located at 10 and 12 East 18th Street.
www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e14.htm
archive.org/details/sim_architectural-record_1910-05_27...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°44'16"N 73°59'27"W
- FDNY - Engine 4 / Ladder 15 4 km
- FDNY EMS Station (Yorkville Metropolitan Hospital Center) 6.6 km
- FDNY Academy 8.4 km
- FDNY Brooklyn Central Office 8.6 km
- FDNY Communications 12 km
- PSAC Bronx Central Office 15 km
- Newark Fire Department - Ladder 1 / Rescue 1 16 km
- East Hanover Police and Volunteer Fire Dept. 33 km
- Whippany Fire Department & Training Grounds 37 km
- Millington Volunteer Fire Company 45 km
- Greenwich Village 1.1 km
- Chelsea 1.2 km
- Midtown (Manhattan, NY) 1.4 km
- East Village 1.5 km
- Lower (Downtown) Manhattan 1.9 km
- Manhattan 5.1 km
- Hudson County, New Jersey 7 km
- Brooklyn 11 km
- Queens 14 km
- The Palisades 25 km