A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Front has Lehigh Valley R.R. Depot, Geneva, N.Y., Handcolored printed on it. Reverse has personal message written on it. The Geneva station, located on the northwest side of town at Sherrill St. and Wilbur Ave. (off North Genesee) was built in 1892 and 1893 by railroad workers under architect, Aldah B. Wood of Ithaca, NY. The Romanesque Revival red brick station features many tall, brick arched, leaded glass windows, and a fanciful roof with several peaks, valleys and miniature towers and dormers. Nearby, coal, ice, and other small businesses utilized the numerous sidings and small switching yard. Anchored at the southeast corner by a tower entrance way to the main waiting room, the station is situated next to an embankment that carried the double track mainline. The large waiting room featured a huge fireplace, a two story cathedral ceiling, leaded glass windows, decorative spindles and brackets with supporting beams and plaster leaf motifs. Behind it, a baggage room opened on one side to the tracks and on the other to the station carriage way. A restaurant (closed in the 1920's) and a kitchen were located to the rear of the building. Trackside, a large platform canopy was added sometime after the station was built, but no record has been found of when it was removed. Vida Dunbar was a teacher in Ithaca, N.Y.
Front has Lehigh Valley R.R. Depot, Geneva, N.Y., Handcolored printed on it. Reverse has personal message written on it. The Geneva station, located on the northwest side of town at Sherrill St. and Wilbur Ave. (off North Genesee) was built in 1892 and 1893 by railroad workers under architect, Aldah B. Wood of Ithaca, NY. The Romanesque Revival red brick station features many tall, brick arched, leaded glass windows, and a fanciful roof with several peaks, valleys and miniature towers and dormers. Nearby, coal, ice, and other small businesses utilized the numerous sidings and small switching yard. Anchored at the southeast corner by a tower entrance way to the main waiting room, the station is situated next to an embankment that carried the double track mainline. The large waiting room featured a huge fireplace, a two story cathedral ceiling, leaded glass windows, decorative spindles and brackets with supporting beams and plaster leaf motifs. Behind it, a baggage room opened on one side to the tracks and on the other to the station carriage way. A restaurant (closed in the 1920's) and a kitchen were located to the rear of the building. Trackside, a large platform canopy was added sometime after the station was built, but no record has been found of when it was removed. Vida Dunbar was a teacher in Ithaca, N.Y.
Lehigh Valley Railroad Station - 9
postcard ; 3 inches x 5 inches (7.7 cm x 12.7 cm.)
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Electronic Resource
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