Engine House No. 9

Engine House No. 9 in Tacoma, Washington is a fire station built in 1907. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

Engine House No. 9
Location611 N. Pine St., Tacoma, Washington
Coordinates47.25595°N 122.47331°W / 47.25595; -122.47331
Built1907
NRHP reference No.75001866[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 30, 1975

It hosted horse-drawn fire equipment from 1908 until the first motorized equipment was bought in 1919. When eventually a replacement station was being completed, the 1965 Puget Sound earthquake shook the building and it was abruptly abandoned. It was reopened in 1973 as a restaurant and bar and was "the city's first historic building to be restored and put to a commercial use by private enterprise."[2]

The building remains a neighborhood restaurant and also houses an award-winning microbrewery of the same name.

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