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(rshsdepot) St. Louis, MI
From The Morning Sun.
Bernie Wagenblast
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Restoration continues on historic St. Louis depot
By ROSEMARY HORVATH
Sun Staff Writer
Building materials are scattered around the St. Louis Pere Marquette train
depot. Sections of bricks running alongside the railroad tracks are uprooted
from where they've rested for 50 years or more.
The scene doesn't look like much today, but by October, the new
Transportation Pavilion, refurbished depot and a few other historic displays will be
ready for the public to see.
Crews with Eastland Concrete and with Integrity Interiors of Okemos were
looking over plans Tuesday.
After brick walkways are pulled up, and the paths leveled, the finest of the
old bricks will be reset. New bricks that reflect the appearance of the old
will build new walkways to tie together the different buildings at the
complex.
Carpenters are ready to build a wood frame transportation center whose
styling will complement that of the turn of the century depot.
"The building will have six-foot wide windows at the front and smaller
windows on the track side," Integrity carpenter Larry Stiffler said.
Stiffler and Deric Wilhelm of Alma tore down an old storage shack, then
repaired, patched and painted the depot. They expect the pavilion to be completed
in a few weeks.
Total restoration of the depot, roof repair, pavilion construction and
streetscape with period streetlamps and landscaping will cost around $696,000.
St. Louis qualified for a Michigan Department of Transportation enhancement
grant.
The pavilion will display a 1917 Republic truck that was manufactured in
Alma. Outside the building will stand an authentic toll booth that was part of
the original wooden plank road leading from Saginaw to St. Louis. The road
eventually became M-46.
The city streetscape, evident for a few years on M-46, will extend from the
highway south on State Street and about 200 feet south of the depot.
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