Engine Company No. 26: This firehouse took advantage of larger suburban building lots and new automotive apparatus technologies in the interwar period.

Engine Company No. 26 was designed in the Colonial Revival style by DC Municipal Architect Nathan C. Wyeth. The Commission of Fine Arts preferred this sort of one-story "bungalow" for neighborhood government buildings. This is consistent with other interwar period firehouses that took advantage of larger suburban building lots and new automotive apparatus technologies.

In 1940, Old Engine Company No. 26 moved here, with Truck Company No. 15, when a restructuring of the fire department led to the disposal of redundant stations. The combined branches became known as Engine Company No. 26, nestled between Brentwood and Brookland. The engine company left its former location on 22nd Street NE.

DC Inventory: February 24, 2011

National Register: May 18, 2011