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title: "Hose tower for North York Fire Department Station 1"
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# Hose tower for North York Fire Department Station 1

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# Hose tower for North York Fire Department Station 1

The fire hall is gone, but its hose tower and archway entrance remain.

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## Why go

The colonial revival structure was built in 1942 by Murray Brown on the site of a former municipal building. The station was torn down in 1989, but the hose tower was preserved and the stone entrance incorporated with the rear exit at the Empress Walk shopping mall.

Source: [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Toronto/North_York)

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