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(rshsdepot) Richmond rumblings
Richmond Union Station AKA Broad Street Station....
arch.: John Russell Pope
he also designed Jefferson Memorial (same dome?), National Art Gallery,
National Archives
RF&P and R&P did not want to use Main Street Station as the city
proposed, did not want to share with competitors C&O and SAL...
Harry Frazier chief engineer
Begun 1917, war changed plans which were simplified, opened 1/6/1919..
On April 22, 1943, 33,324 arrived or departed the station...
SAL shifted to this station 1958...Last train 11/15/1975..Amtrak built
their Amshack...
Scheduled for demolition, thankfully saved as the State Science
Museum...
I have a great picture somewhere in my stuff, but not sure
where...haven't found any others yet and nothing on if based on the
Pantheon, alas...
But I did find this picture of the Triple Crossing in Richmond (posed?):
http://www.piedmontsub.com/RichmondVA3cross.jpg
At Virginia Commonwealth University, in an Architectural Symposium
Abstract in 1994...
This one abstract I will mention below is an resource in Special
Collections and Archives:
"Richmond's Broad Street Station by Russell Pope, 1913-1919" by Thomas
Tyler Potterfield, Jr., City of Richmond and Commonweath Universiy
You can see this entry at the bottom of this web page:
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vcuarch/archindx.html.
I think this paper at VCU librries would have the answer about this all?
pl
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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #418
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