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Steam Engine Company No. 7

historic firehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ55998875 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Steam Engine Company No. 7 building is a historic firehouse located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The two-story, brick structure was built in 1871. It is an excellent example of the application of Victorian design principles to a utilitarian public building, and is stylistically related to contemporary buildings in the Limerick neighborhood.

The firehouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 in recognition of its architectural significance.

See also

Historic Firehouses of Louisville

Louisville Firehouse No.

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“Steam Engine Company No. 7” enters the record as historic firehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Steam, Engine and Company can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Steam Engine Company No. 7” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.