The building symbolizes the patterns of growth along the National Road, which made East Main Street a commercial corridor with surrounding residential neighborhoods.

Its interior had yellow pine with wainscoting four and a half feet high around the entire room.

The first floors were designed to house a hook and ladder truck, hose wagon, and a steamer, as well as stalls for nine horses, as it was built at a time when the engines were horse-drawn.

In 1951, the station began housing the department's Emergency Squad 1 as well as its gas mask repair shop.

In 1963, the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommended retiring the station,[4] and it closed in 1970.

[6] The Columbus Compact Corporation renovated the building into a community outreach center.