Few homeowners can boast having a real firepole in their dining room. This is among the many unique quirks of Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier and Ben Rogier’s home in a renovated historic firehouse in North St. Louis. The single-bay firehouse was built in 1960 and dedicated by then-mayor Raymond Tucker but was decommissioned just a few years later in 1964 after the city built a larger, three-bay station at Vandeventer and Forest Park avenues that is still in use today.

The building went through multiple owners and uses over the years, with various stints of vacancy. A firefighter who purchased it around 2000 did some initial renovations to make it livable as a residence, including adding bedrooms to the second floor. Another couple purchased it in 2013 (their journey was captured on HGTV’s “House Hu

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