Small Nevada firehouse listed within the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A chunk of northern Nevada historical past is now listed within the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.

The Black Springs Volunteer Firehouse is about six miles north of Reno. It served as the primary and solely firehouse within the predominantly Black neighborhood of Black Springs, later referred to as Grandview Terrace, till it was vacated within the mid-to-late Nineteen Eighties, in line with a information launch from the Nevada Division of Conservation & Resouces.

Nevada’s first Black Hearth Chief William “Bill” Lobster labored on the Black Springs Firehouse. (Credit score: Nevada State Historic Preservation workplace)

The firehouse is related to Nevada’s first African American Hearth Chief William “Bill” Lobster. The constructing represents a big contribution to the state’s historical past within the areas of neighborhood growth and ethnic heritage.

Black Springs was developed within the Nineteen Fifties and was a neighborhood the place Black residents might buy property at a time when discrimination restricted Blacks from proudly owning property within the close by cities of Sparks and Reno.

The Black Springs Firehouse in northern Nevada is listed within the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. (Credit score: Nevada Dept. of Conservation & Pure Assets/Our Story, Inc.)

“The volunteer firehouse conveys its importance as a symbol of the community’s self-determination and self-reliance. Just as the community came together to build the Black Springs Volunteer Firehouse in 1970, it came together again in 2022 to recognize and rehabilitate the building. The firehouse is now home to the Northern Nevada African American Firefighters Museum,” the information launch mentioned.

This itemizing will enable the firehouse to be preserved by way of grant funding and tax incentives.