311 W. Court St., Cincinnati, Ohio. County/parish: Hamilton.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 18, 1974. NRIS 74001510.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati, also known as the Cincinnati Fire Museum, preserves and exhibits Greater Cincinnati, Ohio's firefighting artifacts and honors firefighters, both past and present.
Over 200 years of firefighting history is on display in the Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati. Exhibits include examples of early leather fire buckets, an 1808 fire drum, the oldest surviving fire engine in Cincinnati, and an 1836 hand pumper. The museum also features and interactive exhibit that allows visitors to experience a modern Emergency-One fire engine cab by wailing the siren, ringing the bell, and flashing the lights.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989093