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Palmer Fire School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Palmer Fire School, January 2005
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Location	2601 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°26′15″N 82°13′45″W / 35.43750°N 82.22917°W / 35.43750; -82.22917
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1938 (1938), 1940
Built by	City of Charlotte Engineering Dept.
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	04000906
Added to NRHP	August 25, 2004

Palmer Fire School, also known as Firemen's Hall, is a historic school complex for firefighters located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The complex consists of the 1940, one-story, rock-faced assembly hall and the 1938, six-story, red-brick training tower. The assembly hall is a Late Gothic Revival style building, five bays wide with a stuccoed, crenellated parapet and projecting end bays. Its construction was funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and was the only drill school for firemen funded by the WPA.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

See also

• Fire Station No. 2 (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Mattson, Alexander & Associates, Inc. (February 2004). "Palmer Fire School" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

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