The Hose and Hook and Ladder Truck Building is a historic former firehouse on Main Street in Thomaston, Connecticut.
It is basically symmetrical except for the tower, with vehicle bays flanking a pair of pedestrian entrances, which share a protective portico with Victorian arched friezes and spindled woodwork in the gable above.
Brick pilasters articulate the elements of the building's second floor, with matching gabled projections above the vehicle bays.
The gable ends are finished in decorative shingles, which surround half-round arches containing paired sash windows.
[2] The building was built in 1882 to a design by Waterbury architect Robert Wakeman Hill, whose credits include the adjacent opera house (1883-5).