Hook & Ladder Company 14 Firehouse

120 East 125th Street | East Harlem | built 1889

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1. 1889

   Napoleon Le Brun & Son design a new firehouse for Hook and Ladder 14

   The prolific firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Son, which designed dozens of FDNY firehouses in this era, filed plans in 1888 for a four-story station to replace an earlier firehouse on the site. Completed in 1889 for about $16,500, it mixed Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival details, including a wrought-iron dragon-shaped hay hoist and a slate mansard roof.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1895

   June 9

   Firefighter Patrick Conlin dies trying to catch the company's truck

   Conlin, who had served with the company since 1883, was headed to work when he saw the horse-drawn truck racing to an alarm and tried to jump onto its side rail. He slipped, fell, and was run over by the rear wheels, dying of his injuries later that afternoon. The New York Times called it the first tragedy suffered by Hook & Ladder Company 14.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1896

   September 29

   Firefighters Corrigan and Lutz rescue a man from a burning building

   When fire engulfed the lower floors of 2365 Third Avenue, resident Frederick Thompson was trapped asleep on the fourth floor, the only tenant who had not escaped. Thomas Corrigan climbed to the roof of the building next door and stretched between its cornice and a lintel on the burning building to reach Thompson's window, and John Lutz helped pull him to safety.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 2016

   The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute moves in

   After Engine Company 36 left the decommissioned firehouse in 2003, the city sold it to the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute for $1. Following a $9.3 million renovation that began in 2014, CCCADI moved its galleries and cultural programming into the building in 2016.

   Source: Wikipedia

Further reading

• Firehouse, Hook & Ladder Company 14Wikipedia
• Le Brun's 1889 Hook & Ladder Co. 14 - 120 East 125th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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