Firehouse, Engine Co. No. 37, Truck Co. No. 9

1. 1900

   Built.

2. 1918

   Completed in 1918 for $34,550 to designs by Clarence R. Ward of Ward & Blohme, under the city architect John Reid Jr.: a one-storey Mission Revival firehouse of brick with terra-cotta trim and a variegated red tile roof — a central range of seven windows between two pedimented wings, the western one with double arched engine doors under a terra-cotta shield bearing "SFFD" and a captain's two-trumpet insignia, and Italian lamps at the doors.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
3. 1918–c. 1960

   The building served continuously as the Mission–Potrero Hill fire station until about 1960, when it became the Fire Department's Bureau of Equipment, and later a store for its utility and maintenance vehicles.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
4. 1988

   Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 187, Firehouse, Engine Co. No. 37, Truck Co. No. 9.

   SF Planning, landmark designation

The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1918.