Fire Station No. 11 (Kansas City, Missouri)
Fire Station No. 11 (originally Hose Company No. 11) was the first all-Black fire company in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Fire Department (KCFD) organized it in 1890. The African American Heritage Trail notes that the fire station reflected the racial segregation characteristic of American urban life. For nearly 90 years, it remained a critical institution within the city's African American community, as both a product of discriminatory municipal policy and a source of professional employment and community pride. The station's history is linked to the evolution of Kansas City's racial geography, as its relocations followed the consolidation of the Black population into 18th and Vine. Since the city officially organized neighborhood boundaries in the 1990s, the modern Wendell Phillips neighborhood was formed around the station's final landmark building, leaving it a few blocks south of 18th and Vine. The KCFD decommissioned the station in the late 1970s following the department's full integration. The building is listed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places and houses the Vine Street Studio for artists. It neighbors the historic city workhouse castle, built 1897.
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East 21st Street, Kansas City
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East 21st Street 1599
64108 Kansas City
Missouri, United States
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