Retired
& Reused
Not
all fire stations built for the Denver Fire Department
are still used as stations, and Old
Station 18,
as you just learned, is a perfect example of a building
that has a different use than the one for which it was
originally built.
When
buildings stop being used for the reason they were built
and are used for a different purpose, preservationists
use the term reuse.
Sometimes architects are employed to design a plan
for the reuse of a building, especially if the new use
is going to be very different from the original use.
With Engine 18, the building’s use as a fire station
is not too different from its current use. However,
sometimes the change in the building is much more significant.
Lets
check out Old Station 13 and Old Station 10, which are
no longer used as fire stations, to figure out what
the new uses are and how the buildings were changed
to accommodate these new uses.
•
Old Station
13
•
Old Station
10
Old
Station 13
Built
in 1903, Fire Station 13 was sold by the Fire Department
in 1978. The building was designed in the Richardsonian
Romanesque style, which was mostly popular during
the 1880s. Richardsonian Romanesque buildings include
rough faced stone,
like the stone you see around the base in the picture
above. Richardsonian Romanesque buildings are also
characterized by rounded arches.
Old
Station 10
Fire
Station 10 is located in Denver ’s oldest residential
neighborhood, Curtis Park. The station was built in
1928. However, by the 1990s it was no longer in use
by the Fire Department and the Women’s
Bean Project, a non-profit
organization dedicated to helping women gain work skills,
moved in.
| Your
Turn:
Compare
the two photographs of Fire Station 10. How
can you tell that the building is no longer a
fire station?
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Photo
Credit: Denver Fire Fighter's Museum
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