The York Fire Station is a single-storey red brick building originally constructed for the York Municipal Council as Council Chambers in 1897, in York, Western Australia. The architect was Christian Mouritzen. The building is in Federation Free Style Federation Free Style (a commercial version of Arts and Crafts Style) with rendered areas and stucco contrasted against red brickwork. After the completion of the York Town Hall in 1911, the building was sold and later converted for use as a fire station. The building is now a bookshop. York Municipality The York Municipality was gazetted on 4 March 1871 and the first election was held on 15 March 1871. Council meetings were held in the Odd Fellows Hall and the Mechanic’s Institute for a period of 26 years. In the early 1890s, the Council offices were diagonally opposite, in the building behind Dinsdale's Shoe Emporium. William Dinsdale became mayor in 1896. Dinsdale decided that a municipal chamber should be erected because a town hall was not needed at that time. Purchase of site The land was formerly part of the manse field of the Wesleyan glebe lands granted by the Government in 1852 to John Smithies in connection with his coming to York to establish the Gerald Mission to train aboriginal children for farm work. In 1886, Rev Bird offered the land to the Council, but it was not until 1893 that the land, Suburban Lot D Block 3, was purchased for £200, and a building erected using a government grant of £520. Construction The architect for the building was Danish born Christian Mouritzen. He arrived in Perth in 1892 and gained employment as a draughtsman. He worked on the Beaconsfield school and the Bunbury hospital and post office, and the old York hospital. In 1895 he was the government building supervisor living in York and overseeing construction of the court house. He designed and lived in Laurelville. Mr. J Butterley won the tender for the erection of the new council chambers in Avon Terrace for £425.2.0. The foundation stone was laid by Dinsdale on 18 March 1897. The trowel for the laying of the foundation stone was given by the Dinsdale family to the Shire of York in August 2018. The building was completed by July and opened by the governor, Gerard Smith on 8 September 1897. After being shown the three-roomed council chambers, the governor voiced concern that the