[1] From about 1931, local progression associations led by C. Beak and W. J. Smout began to lobby to have a fire station established in their area.

[4] The fire station was opened on Thursday 26 September 1935 by John Innes Brown, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Logan.

The former Coorparoo Fire Station has aesthetic and architectural significance as a former modest, functional civic building.

A landmark on Cavendish Road, the former fire station is sympathetic in scale, form and materials to its residential setting.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.