The Firehouse at Covington Yard takes private parties, company happy hours, team gatherings, client evenings and rehearsal dinners for up to 80 seated or 120 standing. The building is a firehouse from 1895 at 401 Greenup Street in Covington, Kentucky, and it serves as the private event space of Covington Yard, a bar with an outdoor yard on the same site. Bookings run for four hours per event, and the group has its own bar and bartenders for the whole time.
Seminars and company events
The corporate list is long: happy hours, team building, business mixers and networking, holiday parties, fundraisers and charity events, product launches and brand activations, and client appreciation evenings. Workshops and educational meetups also appear among the uses, as do private tastings and mixology classes, which can serve as a team activity in their own right. On-site A/V equipment covers a presentation, speeches or a screening, and the room is also booked for watch parties and fantasy draft nights. An event coordinator handles the planning and the day itself, so an office manager deals with one contact from the first request to the last guest.
Weddings and receptions
The Firehouse does not sell wedding ceremonies, but it hosts the events around them: rehearsal dinners, welcome parties the night before and after-parties. It also takes engagement parties, birthdays, baby showers, graduations, reunions and retirement parties.
Rooms and capacities
There are two configurations. The indoor room alone holds up to 100 guests, or 60 seated. Adding the breezeway, an outdoor passage beside the building, raises the figure to 120 guests, or 80 seated. For a dinner, plan on 60 to 80 seated depending on whether the breezeway is used. For a standing reception, count on 100 or more. Groups above 60 guests get an extra bartender.
Catering
Drinks are at the center of the format. A private bar comes with dedicated bartending staff, and bar menus and beverage packages can be fully open or tailored to the event, drawing on the drafts, cans and specialty cocktails of the Covington Yard list. Food is set up buffet-style or as a self-serve spread. At the Yard itself, food comes from Mad Anthony's Pizza, with sandwiches, salads and wings; the coordinator confirms the food plan for each event.
History and setting
The firehouse dates from 1895 and is presented by its owners as a piece of Covington history. Today it belongs to Covington Yard, which runs the bar and takes reservations for its outdoor yard. The Yard opens from late afternoon on weekdays and from 11 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, and stays open until midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Getting there
Covington sits on the Kentucky bank of the Ohio River, facing downtown Cincinnati, so the venue is a short drive or ride from offices and hotels on both sides of the river. Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is in Kentucky, southwest of the city.
