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Central Fire Station (now Science Station Museum)
1917. West corner of 5th Ave. and 1st St. S.E.
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(Photograph by Catherine Boland Erkkila)
This fire station is a small, low-key classical exercise in brick. It is subtly invigorated by an odd pattern of segmental arched garage doors, not balanced (as is the rest of the composition), but with a rhythm of one large door, then a small one, followed by a large and then smaller opening.
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