Volunteer Fire Department Building – Winnemucca NV

City:
Winnemucca, NV

Site Type:
Military and Public Safety, Firehouses

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Volunteer Fire Department building in Winnemucca, Nevada, was constructed with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds in 1938-39. The building, located on South Bridge St. in central Winnemucca, is still in use today.

The structure contains four bays for fire trucks and a residential space upstairs. The stucco facade is a good example of Art Deco style of the 1930s and has been well maintained. 

The PWA contributed a grant covering roughly half the cost of the project.

Source notes

National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 204.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/7770844428/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 3, 2014.

Location Info


445 S. Bridge St.
Winnemucca, NV 89445
Humboldt County

Coordinates: 40.972517, -117.733180

Site Details

Federal CostTotal CostSite #s
$8,749 $19,730 PWA Docket No. NV 1057

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One comment on “Volunteer Fire Department Building – Winnemucca NV

  1. Tim Little

    I lived in the top apartment with my family from 1955 til 1973. My father Richard Little was a first responder for the Winnemucca Volunteer Fire Department. Back then it was surrounded by houses and a very old and delapidated ”China Town”.

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  1. Tim Little

    I lived in the top apartment with my family from 1955 til 1973. My father Richard Little was a first responder for the Winnemucca Volunteer Fire Department. Back then it was surrounded by houses and a very old and delapidated ”China Town”.

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