Built in 1932, this fire station was constructed on the site of a large residence built by Robert Donovan, a carpenter, in 1868. It replaced the old station built in 1871 on Massachusetts Avenue. The new building was designed by the architectural firm of Parker and Faulstick, which practiced in the city from 1931 until Parker’s death in 1937.

Although little is known of A. A. Faulstick, Wilson Boyden Parker (1867-1937) was well known throughout the state. Born in Massachusetts and trained in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Parker began his career is association with Stanford White, who acquired fame through the New York firm of McKim, Mead, and White. Parker moved to South Bend in 1892 and then to Indianapolis in 1903, where he spent the remainder of his life. Among his more prominent Indianapolis buildings are: the YMCA building, Bobbs-Merrill publishing house, and the East Indianapolis Branch Library.

A slate roof of jerkin head form covers the east/west axis of the building, and a broad gable projects over the double garage doors. The main portion of the building is constructed of structural clay tile units faced with buff brick and trimmed with limestone. Between the double windows of the gable end, a stone roundel bears the IFD emblem. The segmental arch entrance has been enclosed recently with a new door.