Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-07
CHICAGO'S GREAT DEPOT.
A Splendid Structure TO BE Erected for the
Elevated Terminal HALLWAY Company.

Elevated Terminal Railway Company.
The plans for the large terminal station which
the Chicago Elevated Terminal Railway Com
pany proposes to erect at State and 18th
streets are now complete. The main building
will be eight stories high and surrounded by a
steep tiled roof, and will have a frontage of
$50 feet on State street. the style of architecture
being that of the English renaissance. About
80 feet south of this main building will be a
train shed with length of 900 feet on State
street. At the corner of the building will be a
tower 60 feet square and 420 feet high to the
top of the flagstaff. In the tower there will be
clock with dials on each side 10 feet diane ter.
while as the top there will be a freze about I6
feet wide enbiematic of railway construction.
The exterior will be constructed of stone,
very likely brown stone for the first and second
Stories and above this the walls will be OF terra
Gotta. There will be two entrances to the main
waiting room from State street and two
through the tower, while the passengers for
the suburban trains will reach the trains from
the south end of the main building through
the court between the latter and the train
shed. The fronts of the ground first story
of both the main building and train shed viii
be leased for stores. with the exec pton of the
space used for entrances. The main waiting
room will be l14x350 feet and will be afched
with askylight overhead, this being the size Of
the court by which the offices above will be
lighted Opening onto this room there will be
suburban waiting room 50xl60 feet. ladies
paror 50xe0 feet and dining rooms, barber shop,
news stands. &c.
Off the main waiting room there will be a
loggia Is feet wide and about l3J feet long
beneath which will be a carriage entrance to
the elevators and steps leading up to the grand
waiting room. This carriage court will be
l5ax5O feet. The upper part of the building
including the tower, Will be used for offices, Of
which there will be JOG on each floor. In the
train shed will be fourteen tracks. with a trans
fer table by which trains can be immediately
transferred from one track to another, SO that
they can arrive and depart without interrupt
ton. At the north end of the shed there will
be eight elevators for receiving and lowering
the baggage from incoming trains to the bag
gage rooms beneath, while at the south end
there will be the same number for handling
outgoing baggage. The steel roof trusses of
the train shed will have a clear span OF 2S9 feet
and will be of ellipticai form, rising to a height
OF l25 feet They will be placed forty feet
apart and arranged in pairs, braced and riveted
together. The platforms of the train shed will
be or Portland cement and the tracks will be
twelve inches below the platform level.
The entire structure will be of freproof
construction and equipped with all modern
convcnicnces. The estimated cost Is Sd. sec. 900.
1t is intended to begin work as carly as pos
sioie and it is though. that two years viii be
required to complete it.