“Before it was conveyed to the City Council in 1851, 8 Chalmers was the was the site of the engine house of the Deutsche Feuer Companie (German Fire Company) organized after the great fire of 1838. Built in 1852, the present fire house, with an enrollment of seventy men, represented the city’s German population of 4,000 in 1870. In 1871, the name was changed to the German Steam Fire Engine Company. In 1881, the city started a paid firefighting staff, and 8 Chalmers became Engine House Number One. The German Fire Company was reorganized as the German Fire Company Friendly Society in 1882. In 1888, the 116 Meeting Street Fire House was completed, and 8 Chalmers was inactivated.” (Law Offices of Gedney M. Howe website)
Today, the building is home to a law firm.
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