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FREIGHT UNLOADING SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING EAST. - Memphis and Charleston Freight Depot, 330 Church Street Northwest, Huntsville, Madison County, AL
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Lowe, Jet

Related names:

Southern Railway Freight Depot
Norfolk Southern Freight Depot
Alabama Historical Commission, sponsor
Gamble, Robert, sponsor
Sears, Hannah, transmitter
O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter
Title
FREIGHT UNLOADING SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING EAST. - Memphis and Charleston Freight Depot, 330 Church Street Northwest, Huntsville, Madison County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Madison County; Huntsville
Date 2000
Medium 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER AL-190-5
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  • Significance: The freight depot, erected in 1856, is one of the oldest surviving rail facilities in Alabama. Its Italianate architecture is typical of other commercial buildings of the era. / The depot comprises 5400 square feet of enclosed space. The platform area comprises approximately 3900 square feet, and roof area about 10,000 square feet normal to the roof planes. Construction is brick with a heartwood, heavy-timber roof frame. Railroad tracks front the south face of the building. An approximately 50-ft concrete slab and concrete-block platform was added to the west of the southwest corner of the building at mid-twentieth century. The original roof material is unknown. Metal roof patches were added in the early 1990s to an otherwise cement-fiber shingled roof. An Italianate character is suggested by the depot's broad, over hanging, and bracketed eaves, segmentally arched lintels on its doors and windows, louvered roundels, and decorative brick work. On the building's west and east sides, the eaves cantilever out to cover the staging areas where cotton and other commodities were moved from the cars to the warehouse interior.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N889
  • Survey number: HAER AL-190
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1856 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al1297.photos.193346p
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Object location34° 43′ 49.01″ N, 86° 35′ 10″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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