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This building,
located at 7543 Main Street, Sykesville, was constructed in
1948 by the Sykesville Volunteer Fire Department as their
fourth home. It represented a major fund raising and
building project by the entire community and was the first
Sykesville firehouse built specifically for this
purpose.
The building is constructed from
concrete block and has extra heavy steel beams supporting the
second floor. Formstone was used to decorate the front
facade. The second floor was designed to provide a community
events facility with a commercial kitchen. In 1984, the
Fire Department sold the building after building a new, much
larger facility on Route 32. In 1995, Greenberg
Properties removed the 24' wide front overhead door and
replaced it with show room windows and a double front door.
A Baltimore formstone craftsman was hired to decorate
the new section of the front facade with matching formstone.
The building has
two floors with approximately 2369 square feet per floor.
The first floor is occupied by Kingsway Academy, a
private school.
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The second floor opens to a large,
public parking lot in the rear with two at grade
doors. The second floor meets ADA access
requirements and has been approved for state licensed child
care and is leased to a private elementary school.
Electricity and water is
separately metered for each floor and billed to each tenant.
Each tenant pays half of the real property taxes, insurance,
building maintenance, and heat. The building is well
insulated and has efficient, comfortable, low cost oil heat.
The building is well maintained.
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