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Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8

fire station in Indiana, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ28124427 ↗
Source-derived summary

Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8 is a historic fire station located at Terre Haute, Indiana. It was built in 1906, and is a two-story, Romanesque Revival style brick building on a dressed limestone base. It served as a fire station until 1972.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8” as fire station in Indiana, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1972, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Terre, Haute and Fire can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as fire station in Indiana, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28124427. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1972 and 2000.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8 primary sources, Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8 archive and Terre research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Terre Haute Fire Station No. 8” 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.