- City:
- New Orleans, LA
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Firehouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Constructed in 1939-40, the former New Orleans Fire Department Station Number 2 is one of three firehouses built by the WPA in the Crescent City in the late 1930s. Located in the Lakeview neighborhood, south of Lake Pontchartrain, it consists of a brick-clad, cross-gabled, house-type plan containing one bay. Modest regional influences are expressed through the wrought-iron porch supports and a balconette at the top of the front gable. At the rear is a lower gabled addition holding sleeping quarters. Hurricane Katrina devastated this section of the Lakeview commercial district. The fire station is one of a few buildings pre-dating the storm. Of the three firehouses built by the WPA, it is the only station still in use. It now houses New Orleans Fire Engine Company Number 18, and remains a landmark along Harrison Avenue.
Source notes
New Orleans Public Library: WPA Photograph Collection.Site originally submitted by John Murphey on December 21, 2015.
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