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2 unusual facts about Houston Fire Museum


Houston Fire Museum

Designed in the Romanesque style by Olle J. Lorehn, the two-story brick building was completed on January 1899 and features rusticated stone details, a five bay front with Central arched entry flanked by two apparatus bay entries and unique parapet details.

The collection also features firefighting vehicles such as a hand-drawn and hand-powered pumper, a horse-drawn steam engine, and a 1912 American Automatic ware tower with an American LaFrance engine, the only vehicle of its type ever used by the HFD.



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