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Title: Municipal Art Commission Seeks Proposals from Professional Artists
Description: Proposals for "works of art for seven of the city's newest fire stations."
Date: 1980-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Red Hot Response
Description: Article describes the successful efforts of Rick Bumgardner and Don Fields to convert Rosedale's Fire Station Number 1, an historic building located at the corner of I-35 and Mission Road, into a living space. The building, which combined a fire house with a city hall and jail, was built in 1912, and auctioned off to the public in 1998.
Date: 2004-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: It's a Long Way from the Bucket Brigade
Description: Nation's only combined fire training academy, maintenance shop, and fire station.
Date: 1966-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Bringing Downtown Back: Fire Station No. 2
Description: Building at 1020 Central Street orignally the Fire Department Headquarters but renovated as the Central Exchange club.
Date: 1983-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Marlborough Firehouse Gang
Description: Story of the renovation of the old neighborhood firehouse into a senior citizens social center at 73rd and Troost Streets, helped by a Mid-America Regional Council grant.
Date: 1985-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lenexa Fire Station 5 Is in The Green
Description: Pictures and descriptions of the new fire station in Lenexa located on an irregularly shaped piece of property owned by the city and which now makes it possible to respond within six mintues to any emergency.
Date: 2011-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Chamber of Commerce Building
Description: Article describes a deadly fire that destroyed the Chamber of Commerce building at Hallock Street and Central Avenue (Kansas City, KS) on October 25, 1906. The fire took the lives of 15 tenants and caused over $100,000 in damage. It is reported to be the "deadliest fire in Wyandotte County's history."
Date: 2007
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Reid Brothers Packing House Fire, 1895
Description: Article describes in detail a major fire at the Reid Brothers packing house in Kansas City, Kansas. The author includes much information about the workings of the Reid Packing House, a typical one of its day, and the co-operation of the Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri Fire Departments.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Our Municipal Notebook: Do Fire Stations Belong in Public Parks? [and] Fire Stations and Public Parks Are Good Neighbors in Kansas City, Kans.
Description: Photos, map, and article about the two new fire stations of Kansas City, Kansas, being built in public parks there (Emerson Park and Klamm Park) as part of "multipurpose" recreational areas, under direction of architect Charles Mullin, Jr., fire chief Louis Spandle, and the article's author Clark Tucker, mayor of Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1954-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Firehouses, 1862-1912
Description: History of fire stations in the city, starting in the Civil War, with photos.
Date: 1987-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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