Central Fire Station – Biloxi MS

Description

Works Progress Administration (WPA) project No. 3544 started 10/05/1935 included 3 additional fire stations. WPA funding supplied $13,495.01 and the sponsor $9,513.78 for payroll, materials, and equipment. Hook & Ladder, adjacent to L & N Depot, on Main Street. The Central Fire Station construction was begun 04/20/1937 with an expected cost of about $10,000. The formal opening of the new fire station was July 1 when the old Hook and Ladder Company hall was vacated with the final departure of a parade of equipment and personnel to the new station on Main Street.

The new station was 46 x 71 feet, of brick construction in the Mission style architecture. It contained a 40 x 46 apparatus room with sleeping quarters 14 x 31.6 feet, adjacent bath rooms with showers, and individual steel lockers. Other features included a control room, office, chief’s bedroom and bath room, wash room, kitchen and a work room. A second floor contained recreation rooms. John T. Collins was the architect.