Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-12-19
PANHANDLE PASSENGER
STATION.
Complete and Exact OeS.
CriptiOn of the Elegant
StruCture-FineSt Pas.
Senger Depot in the
State Outside of
Indianapolis.

pot Will be located east OF the old de-
pot and the west line of the new de-
pot will take away about twenty five
or thirty feet OF the old depot. The
east line of the new depot will be the
same as the east line of the Jones
hardware store building on tenth
street. The south line of the depot
will be the lot line of the stree. on
which it faces and will be built at the
sidewalk line with portecochere or
entrance porch built over the side
walk in the center of the building,
making a covering for those who en-
ter the depot from carriages or 9th
erwise. The portecochere or porch
will be about twenty-five feet wide;
the depot proper will be forty eight
feet wide by l42 feet long; the train
shed will be about sixty five feet
wide by 800 feet long; the space be-
tween the train shed and the depot
proper will be about twenty five feet
wide by 142 feet long. This space
will be covered with glass cement,
making it an outside waiting room
and will also be enclosed with an
iron fence with gates entering to the
train shed.
A passenger when entering from
the street under the portecochere or
porch will enter into large waiting
room which is about fortyfour by
fortysix feet square. Directly Op
posite this entrance door will be the
entrance to the outside waiting
room and train shed. On the west side
of the large indoor waiting room
will be the ladies, and gents, private
waiting rooms. These pri-
vate waiting rooms have modern
toilet rooms attached. The ladies
waiting room will occupy the north
SIDE and the gents the south side of
the building. Between the ladies
and gents waiting room is the cor
ridor about six feet wide to the lunch
counter. The room where the lunch
counter is located, and also the
kitchen, occupies the extreme west
room of the building. There will be
no dining room attached to this
depot. On the east side of the large
waiting room, (and by the way this
large waiting room occupies the cen
trail part of the building), is fitted
up telegraph office, ticket Office.
baggage and express room and also
a stairway leading upstairs which is
fitted up for a mum Der of offices for
the division superintendent, tele-
graph and dispatcher Office, trans
poruatioL, both freight and passen-
ger departments. engineer and sur
veyor's departments and several
other Off ces.
The exterior architecture of this
building, which is the depot proper,
will be made of brick and terra Gotta.
The design will be of the colonial
order, using light gray or red brick,
the terra Gotta to be made to match
the brick in color. The main entrance
will be about twenty five feet wide
and cover the entire sidewalk This
co ,ering or portecochere or entrance
porch is erected on four large round
brick columns. These columns have
granite bases and are esurmountedwit tn
large colonial capitals. These cap
itals are modelled by special and high
class soul tors. Over these col
umns viii be constructed a cornice
to match the main eornice of the
building. which extends along the
front aud two sides and intersects
aud copes with the main cornice. This
corniee is made from terra Gotta and
is very richly ornamented Above
this corniee and over this porte
cochere or entrance porch will be a
gable construction made OF terra
Gotta and brick of a very rich colonial
Cesigo. The east aud west end OF
the oniiding are practically the same,
except that the east end will have
large sliding doors entering the ex-
press and baggage rooms and COW
cred with an extended canopy made
OF ornamental iron. wood and slate
Both the east and west ends have
large gables extending the entire
width OF this particular part of the
building and these gab'es are made
of terra Gotta and brick richly de-
signed and richly ornamented and
when completed will be very attrac-
tive
The entire roof space of the build
ing will be covered with purple and
green notified slate. The outside
metal work will be made of sixteen
ounce copper. The glass on the ex-
terror will be American plate with
opalescent and venetian ornamental
glass.
To give the reader an idea of this
depot proper there will be S54, 40
com mon brick and 100, 900 OF the fire
blast pressed brick in the structure.
The terra Gotta ornamentation OF
this structure viii cost at least $40,
500. Il requires at least 8, 900 square