{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Engine Company 29 | nrhp_type = | image = DC firehouse 29 engine 5.JPG | caption = Engine Company 29 in 2012 | location= 4811 MacArthur Blvd. NW, Washington, District of Columbia | coordinates = {{coord|38.915555|N|77.093536|W|source:Doncram|display=inline,title}} <!--- NRIS coords were way off {{coord|38|54|58|N|77|02|56|W|display=inline}} ---> | locmapin =United States District of Columbia street | built = 1925 | architect = Albert L. Harris | architecture = Colonial Revival | added = June 6, 2007 | area = less than one acre | mpsub = Firehouses in Washington DC MPS | refnum = 07000534<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> }} '''Engine Company 29''', at 4811 MacArthur Blvd. NW in Washington, D.C., is a fire station built in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.<ref name=nris/>
It was designed by architect Albert L. Harris in Colonial Revival style.
It has also been known as the '''Palisades Firehouse''' and as '''Engine Company No. 29'''.<ref name=wusa9/><ref name=DCinventory2004/>
It was designated a Washington, D.C. historic designation on July 22, 2004. According to the DC Office of Planning,<ref name=DCinventory2004/><blockquote>The Palisades firehouse was the city’s first one-story firehouse, and one of two prototype Colonial Revival firehouses dating from 1925. In that year, the fire department completed its conversion to all-motorized apparatus, enabling a more rapid response and necessitating fewer firehouses overall. But facilities grew larger, and in outlying suburban areas, more land was available to spread the stations over a more convenient single floor. The design is among the most successful of Municipal Architect Albert Harris. Following neo-Georgian principles, the main block of the front-gabled brick building is symmetrically composed, but the dormitories are placed to the side in a secondary wing, creating a T-shaped plan. A majestic four-story hose tower rises at the rear, balancing the design and creating a conspicuous neighborhood landmark.<ref name=DCinventory2004>{{cite web |url=https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/New%20Inventory%20Sep%202004%2003%2011.pdf |title=District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites |date=September 2004|publisher=DC Office of Planning |accessdate=October 8, 2018 |page=123}}</ref></blockquote>
The department's Robert “Bob” Marshall "loved firefighting so much" that he commuted 80 miles to work there, before he was killed in a non-work-related accident in 2018.<ref name=wusa9>{{cite news|url=https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/like-a-father-colleagues-remember-dc-firefighter-who-succumbed-to-injuries/65-544525143 |publisher=WUSA9 |title='Like a father;' Colleagues remember DC firefighter who succumbed to injuries |date=April 22, 2016 |accessdate=October 9, 2018}}</ref> <gallery mode=packed heights=200> File:DC firehouse 29.JPG|in 2012 </gallery>
==References== <!--- <ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=07000534}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Engine Company 29 |publisher=National Park Service|author= |date= |accessdate=}} With {{NRHP url|id=07000534|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}</ref> ----> {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscat-inline}}
{{National Register of Historic Places}}
Category:Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. Category:Colonial Revival architecture in Washington, D.C. Category:Fire stations completed in 1925 Category:The Palisades (Washington, D.C.) Category:1925 establishments in Washington, D.C.
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