Description
Street view of Venture Fire Department. A rectangular, two story adobe building sits on the corner of the street, with its entrance to the left. Spanish tile awnings hang over the windows on the second floor, squares turret on each corner, and a tower on the far back corner. There are clapboard houses and buildings on both sides of the fire house; one building showing an advertisement with the words: "Grain Hay Wood & Coal For Sale." Two figures stand at the entrance, and a third on top of a horse stands on the street out front.
Caption: "Firehouse, Ventura, Cal. 855."
[Mitchell, Edward H., San Francisco, Cal., 855]