City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower

	City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Fire Drill Tower
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Location	501 Washington St.; Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°0′38″N 78°54′37″W / 36.01056°N 78.91028°WCoordinates: 36°0′38″N 78°54′37″W / 36.01056°N 78.91028°W
Area	2.8 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1927, 1928, c. 1948
Architect	Atwood & Nash
Architectural style	Romanesque, Colonial Revival, et.al.
MPS	Durham MRA
NRHP reference No.	00000394
Added to NRHP	May 3, 2000

City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower, also known as City Place, is a historic municipal services complex located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The City Garage is an expansive, largely one-story, polygonal structure with multiple equipment-size access bays. It features arcaded bays and stepped and rounded parapets. The Garage was built in 1927, with 1935, 1940s, c. 1955, and c. 1965 additions.

The Fire Drill Tower (1928) is a narrow six-story building. It features pilasters, blind arches, and round-arched belfry openings. Also on the property are the contributing Signs and Markings Shop (c. 1948, c. 1965) and the Employees' Restroom (c. 1948).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Betsy Gohdes-Baten (August 1999). "City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Betsy Gohdes-Baten (August 1999). "City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

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