Mercer Street [Market Street to Park Avenue & 41st Street]

Firemen's Hall. 127-9 Mercer Street. This building was erected in 1854 on the site of the old Fireman's Hall, at a cost of $34,811. In addition to housing the apparatus of No. 5 Hose Company and No. 6 Hook and Ladder Company, it contained meeting rooms and a library. It became the headquarters of the Fire Department when the paid organization was established in 1865. | J. Clarence Davies Street Views Scrapbook