In operation until 1980, this fire station served the central business district for almost seventy-five years. The corbeled brick cornice and second-story rustication provide considerable visual interest for a civic structure despite its diminutive size. The fire station was restored as a part of the work on City Center Towers I and II (FW6) and now houses an exhibition of Fort Worth history.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Fire Station No. 1", [Fort Worth, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FW8.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 203-204.
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