American Folk Art Buildings

TYPES

Capitol & Civic

Schools  •   Fire & Police & Post  • Important Looking   •  Bridges  • Town

19" high

L.C.F.D: The unidentified town of L.C. shows a fire department station with two hose drying towers of confident architectural intent.

Wisconsin State Capitol. Twice.

Firemen's slide down poles

Above and below:   the firepoles for fast sliding down, so present in American imagery and often in real fire stations too.  Below also: three tintypes of important fire guys are nicely placed on the wall.

More fanciful than most, Willy's Fire Department No. 1939 has topnotch function -- two elevator platforms conveniently pull to roof top housing.