Engine 27 Performance Gallery

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3-story Neo-Grec/Queen Anne-style firehouse completed in 1882. Designed by Napoleon Le Brun & Son, the building housed Engine Company No. 27. The facade displays characteristics of the neo-Grec and Queen Anne styles and is divided into a 1-story base and 2-story red brick upper section. Its largely intact base is composed of red-painted cast-iron piers and a pressed-metal cornice; other surviving features are original wood multipane transoms, an embellished iron lintel over the apparatus entrance, and a faded sign noting "27 ENGINE 27." The brick upper section, framed by end piers, contains central windows with segmental heads and end windows joined by stone lintel courses, continuous stone sill courses, and intermediate stone bands, a foliate frieze above the 3rd-floor windows, and a black pressed-metal roof cornice with modillions and end brackets.

After the building was decommissioned as a firehouse, it served as a welding shop; it then stood vacant and neglected for many years. In 2000 it was renovated into a "sound gallery" and performance space called Engine 27.