Morehead City Fire Station #2

Morehead City, NC

As part of a continueing program to up grade services to their constituients, the Morehead City Commissioners purchased the former Carteret News Times newspaper facility with the goal of reusing the structure as the new central fire station.  To that end, C. R. Francis / Architecture was commissioned to design the new facility.  The design features offices for the department staff near the public entry, with training facilities centered in the structure, and with dormatory spaces adjacent the apparatus bays that were created from the former press room.  Using the earlier station #1 as an exterior finish guide, the front of the structure is finished in split faced colored concrete blockwork [on 3 walls and on the tower that announces the entrance] with the remainder being metal panels painted to match the the field color of the blockwork.  The building was dedicated April 13 2013.

Financed by USDA|RD and funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA]