This neighborhood firehouse stands where Damas Street, Homer Street, Buente Street, Walz Street, and Steine Street meet on Spring Hill, just across Damas Street from the spring that gives the hill its name. It was built in 1929, designed by city architect Richard Neff.
Four of the streets at this complicated intersection are paved roads. The fifth, Steine Street, is a stairway, rising just opposite the front of the firehouse, so that we can get this fine front elevation from second-floor level. (Some utility cables were sacrificed for this picture, but old Pa Pitt promises to restore power to the neighborhood one of these days.)
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