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Firehouse Brewing Co.

610 Main Street, Rapid City, SD

South Dakota's first brewpub poured its first pint inside a 1915 fire hall that served Rapid City's fire department until the 1972 flood forced it out — the brewery's phone number still ends in 1915.

📅 1915–present🏛️ BreweryStill hereBuilt 1915
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Firehouse Brewing Co., 610 Main Street, Rapid City, SD
Firehouse Brewing Co., Rapid City · BakedintheHole, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

Built in 1915 as the Rapid City Fire Hall in the Chicago School style, the building served as Fire Station One until the catastrophic June 1972 flood forced the department to relocate. It reopened as Firehouse Brewing Company on December 5, 1991 — billed as South Dakota's first brewpub and still marketed as the state's oldest operating brewery. The interior keeps the original fire pole, and the phone number (605-348-1915) deliberately nods to the construction year.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The brewery's phone number, 605-348-1915, intentionally ends in the building's construction year.
The original fire pole is preserved inside as decor.
The building's use between the fire department's 1972 departure and the 1991 brewery is undocumented.

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