Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-02-18
TIE NEW UNION DEPOT.
It's Location, Dimensions, ArchIteoture dse.
Great ImprOvem. mt.

The present Union Depot of the Cleveland
and Erie, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land and Toledo, and Cleveland and Colum-
bus roads, is for many reasons an incOnveni-
emily located and arranged building. Two
great objections have been urged against it,
viz the difficulty of approaching it-all
omnibusses and wagons having to GROSS eight
tracks to reach their usual stand-and the
inconvenient arrangement for the trans
shipment of baggage and passengers, as tho
tracks of the Columbus and Toledo roads are
at right angles with the Lake Shore and
Pittsburgh tracks, making the distance
carried much greater than if these tracks ran
parallel to, and alongside of each other.
We arc glad to learn that both these OBJ
jsctions are to be obviated, and many new
advantages gained, by the construction Of
new Union Depot, to be located at the foot of
Bank and Water streets, for which the lands
have already been purchased, and the plans
already drawn. We have had the pleasure
of inspecting these plans, which give prom
ise of beautiful, eommodious and substan-
tial building. 1t will be six hundred feet in
length, by one hundred and eighty feet in
width, and will be built of massive brown
sandstone, with an iron truss roof, the lower
portion of which will be covered with slate,
and the upper with tin. The architecture of
the building, SIS indicated by the plans, will
DO plain and massive, yet elegant. In the
middle, clock tower, ninety feet in height,
will be erected, which will announce the
railroad time to all the city, so that "he who
rams NAV read " The Aasria 90 ~'~-A In -
near the foot of this tower, on tho south side
of the building and will be approached by an
easy grade from Water street, without CROSS
ing single railroad track, greatly lessening
she danger of accidents and deaths: The
msH'q entrance will also be at the foot of this
t,wsr. and there will be two other entrances
on the sHuth side of the building, each of
which will be fourteen feet wide.
The railroad tracks will run parallel with
one another, sud will all occupy the north
side of the building. The depot will bO ap-
preached from the east by the Lake Shore
and Pittsburgh roads on their present tracks.
and from the west by the Columbus and To-
lsdo roads on new tracks constructed on q
curve around the foot of Water street hill.
The Offices, express-rOOms, baggsge-rOoms,
lunch-roOms, kitchen, gentlemen's and Ia
dies sitting rooms, &c, 60, will all be on
the south side of the building. Instead Of
three ticket-Ofices, as at present, there will
| be but one general ticket Office, which will
| connect with the ladies and gentIemen's sit
| ting rooms, and also with the outside platform
| The gentlemen's waiting-room, will be 50x40
feet, and the ladies 45x4O. There will also
| be Iunoh-room on the south side of the De-
pot, 3Ox4O in size, and dining-rOOm Of the
magnificent dimensions of 100x4O. The
kitchen will be 25x62. In addition to these,
there will be six baggage and express rooms
each 20x25, on the lower floor of the south
side, together with smaller offices, water clos
els &c, &c. There will be another story,
devoted to offices, &C., above these rooms,
which WILDE approached by stairs and bal
cony on the inside of the depot.
Such is the present plan of the new Union
Depot, plan, however, which, as we should
remark, is still open for notifications. The
matter is in the hands Ofths energetic Build
ing Committee, consisting of MeSsrs. A,
Stone, President of the Cleveland and Eric,
L. NJ. Hubby, President of the Cleveland and
Columbus, J. N. Mccullough, President of
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh ,and ] Gardiner
President of the Cleveland and Toledo road.
They expect to have the new Depot compile
ted and occupied by the close of the present
year. It's estimated cost is $l25, 900, and it
will be a building worthy of the character
and reputation of Cleveland, as thrifty and
growing commercial city.
We believe thar this Depot when completed
will be the largest in the United States. The
only one which compares with it in size,
which we now recall, is that of Chicago,
which is of nearly the same length but is not
so vide.
TREAT TNTETITERNUR