Location Information
(for the Old City Hall and Central Fire Station No. 1)
Name:Old City Hall and Central Fire Station No. 1 [Scranton’s Restaurant]
Address:623 Delmas Avenue
City/County:Pascagoula, Jackson County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1924
Architectural Styles(s):Mission
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:08 Dec 1978
NR District Name:Scranton (2021)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:25
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Context/Comments
The Old City Hall and Central Fire Station No. 1 was built in 1924 and was dedicated in February 1925. The building housed city offices on one side and a firehouse on the other, with a public meeting hall upstairs. It served as a fire station for the city of Pascagoula until July 1975.

The building was individually listed on the National Register on 8 December 1978. It was later included as a previously-listed element (element #25) in the Scranton Historic District, which was added to the National Register on 6 October 2021.
Brief Description
Two-story, masonry, symmetrical, Mission Style municipal building. Slab foundation. Exterior front façade is clad in smooth white stucco with oversized decorative accents of rough stucco. The side and rear walls are common brick laid in common bond. The gable roof is hidden behind stucco parapet walls with a simple concrete cornice all topped with a concrete parapet cap with a centered bell-cote motif. The front façade has two storefronts. The right originally acted as the fire department with a roll up overhead door to the left (still intact behind a modern anodized aluminum double door storefront) and to the right wood, single-light double doors (that led to the second story). While the left storefront served as the city hall with a three ganged one-over-one wood windows, each separated by mullions, with the center window being twice the width as the outer ones. These windows are topped with hammered glass transoms made up of three ganged one-light windows, each separated by mullions, with the center window containing four-lights, while the outside transom lights have a curved outside corner. To the left for this window are wood, single-light double doors.
Centered on the second floor are five ganged wood double doors of four-lights-over-one-panel. Each door unit is topped with a four-light transom. These doors originally opened onto a Juliette-style wood balcony, with a balustrade of square rails emphasized with a single astral pattern detail in the center. The original balcony was widened c.1982, and it is now supported by three metal posts. To either side of the balcony are single six-over-six wood DHS. Above these windows are quatrefoils incised in rough-textured stucco. Centered above the balcony is an oval vent with wood louvers. Arched above the vent is the inset text reading “PASCAGOULA CENTRAL FIRE CO.” while below the vent is text reading “EST. 1883” Windows on the sides and rear of the building are eight-over-eight wood DHS.
Historic Information
Located in the heart of downtown Pascagoula, Central Fire Station #1 was built on the site of its predecessor, destroyed by a fire in 1921. The building originally also contained city hall and police offices. The second story served as the Firemen's Hall. The new station remained the principal fire facility for the city of Pascagoula until July, 1975. Today the building is used as a restaurant. The upstairs hall was converted to apartments in 2020.

A.J. Ziegenfelder, the contractor for original building, was born in 1882 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and died in 1967 in Pascagoula, Miss.