National and State Register

Denver Fire Station No.3

Denver County

Fire Station No.3 is a 1931 Spanish Bungalow style, one-story fire house continuously owned and operated by the Denver Fire Department. The Spanish Bungalow was a popular style during the 1920s and 1930s when the building was constructed. This building includes a terra cotta clay tile roof, a pitched roof in front, gabled parapets to represent low-pitched clay tiled roofs, and window pairings with brick arch details. 

In the picture is the northern portion of the west elevation of the Fire Station. This portion has garage doors for the single-engine room including two wooden bi-fold garage doors. Each section of the door has one row of three vertical glass panes on the top section, a vertical boarding lower section, and a metal kick plate. There is decorative white stonework above and around the top edge of the doors.

Denver Fire Station No. 3

Photo by Damion Pechota.

From 1931 to 1957, it was the only all-Black firehouse in the City and County of Denver. The fire station is significant in the area of Black Ethnic Heritage as the City and County of Denver's only all-Black employed fire station due to segregation policies in the fire department. It is further significant in the area of architecture as an excellent example of Spanish Bungalow Style building designed by Denver-based architect Charles Francis Pillsbury. 

Denver Fire Station No. 3 National Register Nomination

National Register

Address

2500 Washington Street

Site Number

5DV.9361