salvage operations or firefighting. The company disbanded in 1854, the year after the city established the first full-time municipally operated fire department.(7) STATIONS The Salvage Corps operated from four stations over its 74 years of operation. When the Corps began operation in November, 1886, "...the first location was in a stable on the east side of Bowen Alley (now Bowen Street in Downtown Cincinnati), north of 8th Street, between Walnut and Main Streets."(8) This installation contained a horse, a wagon and its salvage equipment plus the few men employed by the Corps at the time.(9) This location operated until a new headquarters was occupied in 1897. The minutes of a Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees on July 23, 1897 show authorization for a 12 year lease/option to buy for a property at 114 East 8th Street, just around the corner from the Bowen Alley location, to be used for the construction of a new Salvage House. The minutes of that meeting also show acceptance of a bid from William Schuberth in the amount of $6220.00 to construct the building on that site using the Salvage Corps plans and specifications. This would be the Salvage Corps headquarters until 1924.(10) On July 15, 1982, this building, now numbered 112 East 8th Street was added to the National Register of Historic Places, reference number 82003589. The building is listed as three and a half stories of brick construction on a stone foundation in the Queen Anne style.(11) In 2019, a Northern Kentucky trucking company acquired the building for its corporate headquarters and offices.(12) In 1908, a second station was put into service on the corner of Barnard and Lowry Streets, near Spring Grove Ave. and a block south of the east end of the then new Western Hills Viaduct. This station would continue in operation until 1924. The building was subsequently razed during the 1980's.(13) During this period of two station operation, for purposes of response, the city was divided at Vine Street, the city's main North-South corridor - the 8th Street station handled all calls east of Vine St., while the Barnard Street station responded to all calls west of Vine Street. In 1924, a new Headquarters building to house the Corps operations was built and opened at 912-918 Elm Street, behind Crosley Square, the offices and studios of WLW radio. On the first floor, the building had three bays