Cleveland Fire Station #28 Facade and Fire Museum Bridge Getting Major Restoration

The City of Cleveland has filed a permit to restore the exterior of historic Fire Station #28 at 310 Carnegie Avenue and its connecting bridge to the neighboring fire museum.

The scope is a full envelope restoration: masonry cleaning and repairs, sandstone repair, replacement of all existing windows, a new roof, new masonry helical ties, new lintels, and flashing repairs and replacements. The filing notes no interior alterations — the work is entirely about stabilizing and restoring the building's exterior.

Fire Station #28 is the historic downtown firehouse on Carnegie, physically linked to the Western Reserve Fire Museum and Education Center. Helical ties are a structural repair that anchors aging masonry facades back to the wall behind them — their presence in the scope suggests the stone had begun separating from the wall, which is common in century-old municipal buildings that have gone decades without a full facade campaign.

The permit is currently in review.