National Register Listing

Houston Heights Fire Station

Yale and 12th Sts., Houston, TX

This was built by the city of Houston Heights to serve originally the city hall and firehouse, combined. as It also served as the jail of the town for a while. It remains in use as a fire station. Architect Pigg also designed the Beaconsfield Apartments on Main Street, Houston.


Local significance of the building:
Politics/government; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.