Re: (rshsdepot) An architectural question.

["Gene Paoli" <stationman_@_prodigy.net>]

Indeed there are some similarities in Pope's RF&P Broad Street Union station
and White's library but after the hexagonal dome structure there isn't much.
The station has 6 columbs while the library 10. The station has 2 flanking
wing projections with smooth pillars and the usual tripple arched 2 story
windows along with full 2 1/2 story wings while the library has only one
story entrance doors...etc...all the way up to the station's wrap around
first story canopy to the fact that it was designed 20 years later.

What is more interesting, is Pope's successor's Eggers & Higgins who
finished up Pope's work and went on create the Railroad Pavilion at the 1939
Wold's Fair in Long Island and several railroad structures in Elmira, NY in
1942-3.

Gene Paoli
stationman_@_prodigy.net

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) An architectural question.


> Go to this page:
> http://www.retroweb.com/nwsteam.html
> and go down to fifth picture (third row of pictures) and see a streamlined
> K-2 in front of "Richmond Low Library Station"
>
> Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JIMBEAR <ribear_@_cox.net>
> To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
> Date: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:06 AM
> Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) An architectural question.
>
>
> >Well, I don't think I've ever seen a photo of Union Station in Richmond;
> but
> >the Low Library is famous, and has been photographed many times. It's a
> >derivation of the Pantheon in Rome and the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
> >This website gives a brief description and history.
> >http://www.gs.columbia.edu/kevinmap/lowmemorial.htm
> >
> >Jim.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
> >To: "RSHSDepot" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> >Cc: "Henry Rosenberg" <Henryr_@_mail.javanet.com>
> >Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 11:40 PM
> >Subject: (rshsdepot) An architectural question.
> >
> >
> >> Richmond Union Station and Low Library at Columbia University in
> >> Manhattan look like the same building, just at different scales...
> >>
> >> McKim, Mead & White did Low Library....but I know that a different
> >> architect did Richmond Union...
> >>
> >> OK, now my question is technical...were both these buildings based on
> >> the original design in the ancient Roman world, from Italy or other
> >> European landmark, probably a church?
> >>
> >> Sorry for the syntax
> >>
> >> Anybody have any idea?
> >
> >
> >
> >=================================
> >The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
> >railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
> >
>
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> The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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