FDNY Engine 33/Ladder 9

 landmark, fire service, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historical building

4-story Beaux-Arts firehouse completed in 1899. Designed by Ernest Flagg in collaboration with Walter B. Chambers, its upper floors incorporate a monumental limestone arch. On the front facade the rusticated limestone ground floor is set off by a narrow stone band course, and the pitched roof is distinguished by a projecting metal cornice carried on brackets and topped by a row of small anthemia.

The ground floor originally had two pedestrian entrances which flank the two central arched vehicle entrances, but the one on the left has been filled in and bears a bronze plaque. There are several other plaques attached to the ground floor. The facade is red brick above the band course, with a large, recessed, round-arched opening rising through the next two floors, almost filling the facade. The opening has coved edges, finished in brick on the lower part and stone around the upper curved section. At the keystone and within the cove below is an elaborate, carved cartouche. A narrow, raised label-molding with terminating bosses tops the curve of the arch.

Within the arch are three floors of windows with cast-iron surrounds, decorative metal railings at the 2nd and 4th floors and an elaborately decorated pediment above the third floor. The mansard roof rises above a cornice ornamented with antefixes, fleur-de-lis, and pairs of scrolled cut-work brackets. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966.

Engine 33 Company was originally organized on Mercer Street in lower Manhattan on November 1, 1865, but then moved to its present location on June 1, 1899. Ladder Company 9 was organized in 1865; its first house was on Elizabeth Street. It moved to 42 Great Jones Street in 1948. The Great Jones Street location was also the home of the Chief of Department for a time. 10 of the 14 firefighters from this house who responded to the World Trade Center were killed in the September 11 attacks.

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