Waiting for the 5: 05 : Terminal, Station, and Depot in America
by Lawrence Grow
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Waiting for the 5:05: Terminal, station, and depot in America by Lawrence Grow (1977)Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1977
- People/Characters
- Henry Hobson Richardson; Frank Furness
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Washington, D.C., USA
- First words
- Almost until the mid-twentieth century and the building of an interstate highway system, rail transportation and its course of development has paralleled that of America's social and economic progress as a nation.
- Quotations
- At first indistinguishable from other buildings, the train depot came to be a unique type of American architecture.
The railroad was incepted and matured before World War I, when style was the prerequisite for architecture.
The train station was the image of the community, presenting at a glance something about its size, affluence, livelihood, and social range of the citizens, their taste in architecture, and even when their local pride last cam... (show all)e to fruition, in the building of the depot.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Art & Design, General Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 725.31 — Arts & recreation Architecture Public structures Transportation Railroad & Transit Stations
- LCC
- NA6311 .G76 — Fine Arts 2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticism Architecture Special classes of buildings Classed by use Public buildings
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- English
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