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RE: (rshsdepot) AIA's Top 150 Buildings includes railroad stations

Palo Alto and not Menlo Park?

I have had the distinction of living a block away from Menlo Park (Cal.
SP), oldest used station on west coast and working a block away (a few
years later) from what was the oldest continually used station in US
unchanged at Hewlett (still there though not used as ticket office anymore
for around 7 years maybe), New York (South Side RR of LI/LIRR)

The fools knocked down East Willitson (oldest LIRR station pretty recently
and bigger fools demolished the old South Side Rockville Centre
freight/passenger station (the outbound side) in a parking lot of an inn on
old ROW of the traction line in Oceanside since c. 1924 (I was so mad when
this was knocked down I never completed my article on it, plus saw a 1920s
article on it with a picture and explanation of why it was there, but I
didn't even read it and now must refind it in old Nassau Daily Review
newspaper) (I lived a few blocks from that one as well, and as I also lived
near the Santa Clara depot as well as the old San Jose WP freight depot
(now also stupidly demolished), I have been near quite a lot of historic
little depots.

And I agree about Hoboken, it is an amazing and almost hidden depot and
cooly still heavy used, though I can't roam around the enormous ferry
concourse upstairs anymore now that tehy ares upposedly actually restoring
it somehow.

I would add South Station in Boston, but maybe before they knocked down the
Post Office side wing....and if demolished Penn Station can be on this list
this opens the list to historic gone depots and I would add hundreds (like
SP mission style terminal in San Francisco, many in Chicago including
Northwestern, IC, Dearborn/Polk, LaSalle Street...and that amazing huge old
Union Depot in Cleveland before the tower; but I don't see why it was on
the list being gone now for 43 years or so, so I will just add Waterbury,
Conn., the D&H in Albany, the UP in Salt Lake (the unused one if that one
is the one), Reading Terminal in Philly (interior) as well as the PRR in
Pittsburgh (does interior still exist?)..and I will throw in Torrington,
Conn. just because it still exists so many years after closing


> [Original Message]
> From: <jdent1_@_optonline.net>
> To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Date: 2/14/2007 5:26:28 PM
> Subject: (rshsdepot) AIA's Top 150 Buildings includes railroad stations
>
> Interesting post on Trainorders.com...
>  
> Date: February 10, 2007 21:20
> AIA's Top 150 Buildings includes train stations
> Author: RuleG 
>
> The American Institute of Architects (AIA) conducted a survey of public
asking about their favorite buildings. The top 150 buildings include the
following train stations: 
>
> New York Grand Central Terminal 
> Washington Union Station 
> Cincinnati Union Terminal 
> Los Angeles Union Passenger 
> Chicago Union Station 
> Kansas City Union Station 
> New York Penn Station (the accompanying photo shows the original station
which was demolished) 
> Philadelphia 30th Street Station 
>
> The Washington, DC Metro was also included. 
>
> Here's a link to the AIA list: 
>
> http://www.aia150.org/aia150_afa_7 
>
> I don't see how NY Penn Station was included as it was demolished.
Chicago Union Station has lost too much of its original structure. 
>
> Of the stations on the list Grand Central and Los Angeles Union Passenger
Terminal are my favorites. I hope to visit Cincinnati Union Terminal some
day. 
>
> Here are some of my favorites: 
>
> North Bennington Railroad Station - Benington, VT 
> Utica Union Station - Utica, NY 
> Lackawanna Station - Hoboken 
> Pennsylvania Station - Baltimore 
> CNJ Station - Bethlehem, PA 
> Pennsylvania RR Station - Harrisburg 
> Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station - Pittsburgh 
> Terminal Tower (formerly Cleveland Union Terminal) 
> Southern Pacific Station - San Antonio 
> Texas & Pacific Station - Fort Worth (a true art deco gem) 
> Duluth Union Depot 
> Denver & Rio Grande station - Glenwood Springs, CO 
> Milwaukee Road Station - Missoula, MT 
> Northern Pacific Station - Wallace, ID 
> Southern Pacific Station - Palo Alto 
> Southern Pacific Station - Santa Barbara 
>
> What are your favorite depots, stations & terminals? 
>
> Dave
>
> Jim Dent
> Oakland, NJ
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