Location Information
(for the Old Constitution Firehouse)
Name:(Old) Constitution Firehouse
Address:1204 Main Street
City/County:Vicksburg, Warren County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:c.1870
Registration Information
NR District Name:Main Street (Vicksburg)
NR Status:Contributing
Element No.:2
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:09-20-1988
Recorded:10-03-1988
Book/Vol. No.:V. 854, p. 181
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Historic Vicksburg District
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Context/Comments
A contributing element in the Vicksburg Main Street Historic District, the Constitution Firehouse was built in 1870 as the second house of the city's first volunteer fire company, which had been organized on April 13, 1837. This two story, three-by-three bay brick building with hip roof and cupola, round-arched door openings on the first floor, and segmented-arched window openings on the second floor, is one of the few surviving examples of a late nineteenth-century firehouse remaining in Mississippi.