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Old Police Call Boxes of Washington

Posted by: Ghosts of DC on May 13, 2012 in Other Cool Stuff 2 Comments

Most of you probably walk right by those old police boxes scattered throughout the city. Some of them have been turned into miniature art exhibits — like the ones in Mt. Pleasant. Check out the video above of Sgt. Nicholas Breul of DCPD gives a brief talk on the history of these police call boxes.

Surely Officer Sprinkle was intimately familiar with these call boxes.

Police call box at 13 1/2 and D St. NW in 1912 (Wikipedia)

Police call box at 13 1/2 and D St. NW in 1912 (Wikipedia)

Historic police call box. Sheridan Kalorama Call Box Restoration Project. Located on Massachusetts Ave. near intersection with 22nd St., NW

Historic police call box. Sheridan Kalorama Call Box Restoration Project. Located on Massachusetts Ave. near intersection with 22nd St., NW

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000174144325 Doug Wheeler

    Hey! The Historic police call box on Mass near 22nd is really a Fire alarm box!!!
    It’s entirely different than a cop one. The police one had phones where the police would call in every hour or so, so their bosses would know they were ok.
    People would hook the Gamewell fire alarm box for obvious reasons.

  • C Somers

    Another interesting side note; the pedestal of the boxes (the part that actually goes into the ground and to which the phone or Gamewell boxes were attached to) were all made at a foundry that was located at the Workhouse Prison of the District of Columbia located in Lorton, Virginia.

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