Northwest Corner of Jefferson and Division Streets - Pilot Point Commercial Historic District - Pilot Point, TX
N 33° 23.687 W 096° 57.639
14S E 689670 N 3696913
Built around 1905, the vacant building at the northwest corner of W Jefferson and E Division Streets in Pilot Point is a contributing building to the Pilot Point Commercial Historic District.
Waymark Code: WMY18Y
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/31/2018
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The National Register's Continuation Sheet (2007) describes this building thusly:
Painted brick 1-story commercial block with corbelled parapet. South bay has nonhistoric recessed doorway; north bay bricked in. Originally housing the city water works (replacing an earlier structure serving the same function), by 1940 the building also housed the fire department.
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"Pilot Point", in Arcadia's Images of America series, by Jay Melugin, has a 1924 photo of the volunteer fire department standing in front of this building. Established in 1906, they started with buckets, rope, an axe, and a ladder, before upgrading in 1910 to a horse-drawn cart with a hose reel. By the 1920s, an American La France pumper was acquired, and it wasn't long before the fire department outgrew this location.