Paca Street Firehouse
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Paca Street Firehouse, also known as Truck House No. 2, is a historic fire station
Fire station
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 located at Baltimore
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, Maryland
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, United States
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. The architect of Paca Street Firehouse is John E. Lafferty. It is a 1909 two-story brick structure with a highly detailed stone Renaissance Revival  façade. The principal space is a large room subdivided at the Paca Street
Baltimore-Washington Parkway
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 end into offices. It is one of three early 20th century firehouses standing and is the only one to retain its original features, particularly in the interior.

Paca Street Firehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1983.

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