Truck Company F

Truck Company F, at 1336-1338 Park Rd. NW in Washington, D.C., was built in 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The listing included two contributing buildings.[1]

Truck Company F
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1336-1338 Park Rd. NW, Washington, District of Columbia
Coordinates	38°55′49″N 77°01′54″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1900
Architect	Leon Dessez
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Firehouses in Washington DC MPS
NRHP reference No.	07000539[1]
Added to NRHP	June 6, 2007

It was designed by architect Leon Dessez in Renaissance style.[1]

It has also been known as Truck Company 6, as Old Engine Company 11, and as Old Columbia Heights Firehouse.[1]

It was designated a Washington, D.C. historic designation on July 22, 2004. According to the DC Office of Planning,[2]

Truck Company F was built in 1900 to serve the emerging neighborhood of Columbia Heights. It was one of the first of a new series of high-style firehouses created in the eclectic period between the late 1890s and World War I, as an expression of civic pride and as a testament to the importance of the Fire Department. The superb Italian Renaissance Revival design by local architect Leon Dessez is executed with a high degree of finish and formality, using Roman brick and glazed terra cotta detail. The rear stable, similar in design, also remains. The firehouse was built for Truck Company F (whose designation is inscribed in the terra cotta frieze); it was renamed Truck Company 6 in 1906, and merged with Engine Company 11 in 1940. The building was removed from active duty when Engine Company 11 relocated in 1982.[2]