HISTORY OF TIVOLI FIRE CoMPANY
NON-PROFIT BEGINS
Upon his death in 1907, General DePeyster willed the Fireman’s Hall to the Leake and Watts Orphan Home of Yonkers, of whom he was a great patron. Leake and Watts leased the building back to the village for $84 per annum. The three fire companies finally united in 1919 as a non-profit entitity named Tivoli Fire Company, housed in the DePeyster Fireman’s Hall until 1985 when finally, the scale of modern trucks and equipment called for a (then) modern building, which was erected next door.
The Tivoli Fire Company is currently comprised of more than fifty volunteer firefighters who serve an area that includes all of Tivoli, Bard College, and much of the town of Red Hook, as well as providing mutual aid to Germantown and Clermont.
In the 102 years since incorporating as a fire company, the Tivoli Fire Company has improved and updated its equipment and facilities, and kept members updated with critical training requirements. The Fire Company takes great pride in its rate of growth and retention of long-serving members. As Northern Dutchess County’s population continues to increase, the Tivoli Fire Company must be able to continue to provide the essential services that these communities depend upon.
As LONG AS A DECADE AGO,
the need for expanded facilities to accommodate the Tivoli Fire Company had become clear. The increased ranks of the membership, the continued acquisition of necessary equipment, and contemporary health and safety requirements for firefighters (showers for example), required more space than the 1985 building could provide.
After a devastating fire struck the firehouse in July 2019, the Tivoli Fire Company rallied, recovered, and rebuilt. The Company committed to pursuing a capital campaign to finally enlarge the firehouse in order to meet our current requirements and those of the decades ahead.
Please join us as we embark on this campaign to build an expanded facility to meet the needs of our community for the next one hundred years.
Together let’s build a public-private partnership to reach the goal of raising
$4 MILLION DOLLARS
to support this firehouse capital campaign
