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Re: (rshsdepot) Columbus Ohio Union Station

In the late '60s/early '70s, an artist friend of mine, Diane Powell, 
lived in the Beaux Arts section.  She'd taken one of the several 
commercial segments (the one on the far left of the facade), renting it 
cheaply because no one else wanted it.  (As far as I know, she was the 
only tenant of the entire row.)

Walking in the High Street door, you found yourself in a vast, roughly 
cubical, room, about the height of a two-story house with attic, as I 
recall.  She had partitioned off a kitchen in one corner, and a sleeping 
loft above it. Stairs along the far wall led up to the loft and then up 
further to a room atop the building that she used as her studio; it had 
windows on two or three sides.

The basement level of the facade row, accessed by a driveway that 
branced off the one leading down to the actual station, had big double 
garage-type doors.  The space below her portion was large enough that 
she and a friend restored a Chinese junk down there (a 38-footer or so, 
as I recall).

Alas, when she married, she changed her name and I have lost track of 
her; I don't know when she left that space.

- -Ivan Berger

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Gordy Bjoraker wrote:

>There is an excellent web site on Union Station in Columbus, Ohio
>http://home.columbus.rr.com/unionstation/
>
>I was there in 1976. The station closed in April, 1977 and was 
>demolished soon after. More information is available in a book 
>entitled "Taking the Cars: A History of Columbus Union Station" by 
>Jeffrey T. Darbee (2003). The station was very unusual because there 
>was an ancient crumbling facade on High Street in a Beaux Arts style. 
>A block or so away was a more traditional T-shaped brick station with 
>a concourse spanning the tracks. Today a Convention Center has 
>obliterated all traces of the station. One ornate arch from the 
>facade was saved and relocated (twice).
>
>Gordy Bjoraker
>Seabrook, MD
>
>  
>

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