{"id":4261,"date":"2012-03-24T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T06:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2012-07-04T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:22:35","slug":"old-central-fire-station-waltham-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"Old Central Fire Station, Waltham (1887)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wfd-1887.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Old Central Fire Station, Waltham (1887)\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wfd-1887.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wfd-1887-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.waltham.ma.us\/fire-department\/pages\/wfd-station-histories\">Waltham Central Fire Station<\/a> was built in 1887 at 27 Lexington Street, and is next to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=669\">old Police Station<\/a>.  In 1964, Central Station Department Headquarters were moved to the new Municipal Center at 175 Lexington Street and the old Central Station became the Auxiliary Fire Department Quarters.  The building is architecturally similar to (although not as elaborate as) the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moody_Street_Fire_Station\">Moody Street Fire Station<\/a> (built 1890-1892), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.waltham.ma.us\/fire-department\/pages\/stationsmoody\">also located in Waltham<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Waltham Central Fire Station was built in 1887 at 27 Lexington Street, and is next to the old Police Station. In 1964, Central Station Department Headquarters were moved to the new Municipal Center at 175 Lexington Street and the old Central Station became the Auxiliary Fire Department Quarters. The building is architecturally similar to (although not as elaborate as) the Moody Street Fire Station (built 1890-1892), also located in Waltham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,55,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-buildings","category-richardsonian-romanesque","category-waltham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}