This photograph shows five fireman and their horse-drawn hose wagon at the original wooden fire station on NW Market Street and Russell Ave NW in Ballard. This was a volunteer station until Ballard's annexation into Seattle on June 1, 1907, when it because Hose No. 18, a paid company of the Seattle Fire Department. In 1911, this building was replaced by a brick firehouse built by Seattle architects Bebb and Mendel. Ballard Fire Station No. 18 remained in continuous use for 63 years, longer than any other Seattle firehouse, reluctantly shutting its doors in 1976 when the station was retired by the city after being deemed surplus property. The restored fire station now (in 2017) houses the Hi-Life restaurant.
Caption information source: Seattle Fire Department Millennium 2000 Memorial Yearbook, p.15. Caption information source: Hi-Life / Fire Station No. 18 at http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fire-station-no-18-and-the-hi-life
ID Number: SHS1042
Date: Circa 1907
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w ; 6 x 8 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
