Wedding Guide

The restored Palmer Fire School boast a unique gathering place for Charlotteans. The rubble stone structure was built in the 1930’s during President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration in an effort to employ people in the midst of the great depression. Then Fire Chief Hendrix Palmer, which the building was named after, lobbied government officials to approve funding for construction of the facility to provide firefighters with the best training facility n the country at that time.

In the thirty plus years the facility acted as a training academy it was also utilized as a social gathering place for dances and barbecues. How appropriate this unique structure be restored to it’s original state and added to the National Historical Registry.