Facade	Main Entrance	Left Oblique	Right Oblique	Left Elevation
Rear Elevation	Pediment Detail	Window Detail	Relief Detail

The North Columbia Fire Station No. 7, built in 1948, is significant as an excellent example of the transition between the Art Moderne and International styles and also as a design of Heyward S. Singley, a prominent twentieth-century South Carolina architect well known for designing many public buildings across the state from the 1930s to the 1950s. The fire station was designed in 1947 and constructed by the Crosland Construction Company in 1948 at a cost of $62,000. The 1948 annual report of the City of Columbia Fire Department described it as “completely fire resistant. It is two-story, brick, metal window frames, steel roofing supports, forced air heat, 12-bed dormitory with no separate officers’ sleeping quarters, supply room, alarm room, recreation room, bathing, sanitation, and kitchen facilities. Three companies can be accommodated.” The building is an artful, high-style example of the transition and overlap between the Art Moderne and the International style. The flat roof, clean lines, and spare detail are representative of the International style. The horizontal and lateral banding is characteristic of both styles, but the positioning of the ribbon windows at the corners seems particularly reminiscent of a machine, such as the bridge of a ship, and so satisfied a trademark of the Art Moderne style. Listed in the National Register June 1, 2005.

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