Elgin Fire Barn No. 5, 533 Saint Charles Street, Elgin, Kane County, IL

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Significance: Built in 1903 after designs by local architect Smith Hoag, Elgin Fire Barn No. 5 was one of a series of public firehouses built in Elgin, Illinois in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a well-preserved example of a fire house designed for horse-drawn apparatus and features handsome Classical Revival decorative details popular at the turn of the twentieth century.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2204

Survey number: HABS IL-335

Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1991-2015 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 91001002

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1903 - 1980

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