Open house at Fire Station 9 on Saturday

By Heidi · January 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments

The public is invited to an open house at Fire Station 9 on Saturday, January 9, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The station is located at 3829 Linden Ave N. Families are welcome to tour the engine, learn about new improvements to the station, and meet the firefighters who serve the neighborhood.

5 responses so far ↓

1 ballarddad // Jan 8, 2010 at 7:49 pm

Nice picture but that's not the fire station but an annex to the station. Fire station 9 is the building directly north of the one pictured.
2 ballarddad // Jan 8, 2010 at 7:51 pm

Here's a link to the official SFD station picture:

http://www.seattle.gov/fire/firestations/statio...
3 Name // Jan 9, 2010 at 6:55 pm

Actually the picture is of the Fire Department Alarm Building which has historical significance. It missed being landmarked by one vote of the City of Seattle Historic Landmarks Board.

These kinds of buildings remain largely unknown except within districts. Often referred to as “vernacular” they are not as magnificent as preserving a school or large building but never-the-less may be historically significant.

Go check it out while it's still standing. It's an easy drive-by just south of the actual fire station. Then call the city and suggest that instead of a planting strip located there, they could leave - at least - the front of the building. Any architect worth their fee should be able to incorporate history into their institutional upgrades. It's just plain laziness on the part of the city that they won't honor a small piece of Fremont history.
-The Fremont History-geek
4 ballarddad // Jan 9, 2010 at 6:59 pm

I don't know what it was before and I don't dispute what you say but for the last 20 years it's been storage and and it housed equipment to refill air and oxygen cylinders.
5 holz // Jan 16, 2010 at 6:26 pm

actually, the building does NOT have historical significance. not every project an architect designs is significant. this utilitarian structure didn't meet most of the city's reqs for landmarking:

a. it's not associated with a historic event.
b. is is not associated in a significant way with the daniel huntington (unlike many of his other projects).
c. it is not associated in a significant way with any cultural, political or economic heritage of seattle.
d. it does not embody the distintive characteristics of an architectural style or period.
e. it definitely is not an outstanding work by huntington.
f. it may be identificable, but most people don't know about it and it has not contributed to the identity of fremont.

at best the argument can be made that the facade is different - especially in that it doesn't look like a something you would find in an area prone to lots of rain.

the only way the architects would have been able to fit a functioning fire station with adequate apparatus bay while keeping the blighted hungtington abortion, would have been to create a significantly taller and bulkier fire station. this would have had a negative affect on adjacent views and property values.

the board was smart to not vote for significance, not lazy. now the neighborhood can actually have a functioning station which may, in time, actually be worth preserving.