Berea Union Depot
Built of sandstone with elements of slate, the depot is a Gothic Revival structure with Victorian-influenced components. Both the sandstone and the styling are uncommon in northeastern Ohio, where masonry depots were typically brick, and where wooden stations outnumbered masonry.
Critical to the station's establishment was Berea's stone-based economy; in the late nineteenth century, the city's sandstone quarries were the world's largest, and a typical day in the 1880s saw eighteen trains at the station. One century later, the depot was named a historic site: it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 1980, qualifying because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant architecture.
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References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 191-192.
- ^ "Berea Union Depot". Waymarking. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Ohio Historic Marker, 2003, Berea Historical Society and the Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 43-18.)
- ^ Berea Union Depot, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2014-02-11.
External links
Media related to Union Depot (Berea Ohio) at Wikimedia Commons