The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
PLANS FOR ALLAN A'S
NEW DEPOT.
New Station Will Face On Madison
Avenue, with Entrances on the
Mitchell Street Viaduct-Ar-
tistic Effect Is Attained
Throughout.

station of the Atlanta Terminal Com
pany. with facts and figures as present
ed in the accepted plans of ]. Thornton
Marye, of Washington, d. c., which will
be Immediately submitted to contractors
| for bids and the actual work of construc-
ton commenced very soon.
| Fronting on Madison avenue there Will
! be located the Atlanta terminal station,
the most beautiful station in the south,
the most modern in its appointments, the
largest IN its accommodations and with
type of architecture belonging to the
Spanish renaissance period at one time
warm with color and rich i'll an artistic
combination of the ornamentally decora-
tive and the intensely practical.
Characteristic it is of DiXieand in that
it savors of those first architectural Ell
forts Of the early Florida fathers and
emblematic of the spirit of Atlanta IN
that it is at one time q monument to the
vast growth Of this railroad center of the
south and prophetic of the future metrop-
oils that may reach million and sun
find in this depot adequate accommoda-
tons for urban, suburban and foreign
travel. Cities there are that have passed
the seven-fsure limit that cannot ooaSt
of such a terminal.
grace the front there is a touch of the
leftover period of the Moorish that pre-
coded the renaissance, There is in the
tremendous space required By the govern
nent for the mailing room an ndlsputa-
BILE testimonial of Atlantas growing
needs in a business way that will not
permit of discussion.
Old and New United.
1t unites the romance of the Alhambra
with the modern appointments of New
Yorl1's grand central on Forty-second
street.
In a word, it more than makes good in
every way the promises of a long past
of anticipation and is well worth having
waited for In so rich and commodlous a
realization.
Step, il you will, a little into the future
and lind yourself on Madison avenue III
plenty Of time for your train SO that you
can proGtably spend a short time III
looking about you.
If you will so as far on Madison avenue
as the Mitchell street viaduct you VIII
ind yourself in front of beautiful plaza
over a hundred feet deep And rising be-
vond this man made park OF concrete
rises a building that not only courts, put
demands your careful considerations
OF gray notified brick it is, rising four
stories high, rich with mural decorations,
facades OF granite and ornamental work
in those soft harmonizing tints found on'y
in and by the use OF terra Gotta 40
Full in front rise twin towers over wv
feet high, their tops glistening yellow III
the sunlight while below reu tiled slate
roofs catch and hold a reflection warm
and pleasing.
extefius~ a beaaptiG2 ltFant, Of eft the bunai l
effectively to the artistic whole while a
no
needs Of a series of porte cocheres for the |
accommodation of all commuters Here
In this vast open concourSe it is possible
to see many carriages rolling to and away
from the station with far too much open
space to make possible any cause for de
lay.
Three Entrances.
Cross the plaza and you will find OPEN
ing CT of AIS loggia are three separate
entrances The central or main entrance
is 30 feet wide, the oVerhanglng archway
beckonllg an architecturally artistic well
come to the every stranger that comes
within The Atlanta gates. And if you VIII
look closely you viii see that these visitors
stop to scG,tinize closely and mediate
seriously on his site that was at one time
burned or turning waste left as the
heritage OF wal
Directly IS u enter the entire main
waiting room lIs before you. Most eff
fective 1t IS III 'hte marble with just
enough Of yellow L relieve to pronounced
a whiteness. And with its $500 square
feet OF floor space here is room and to
spare for the Watins MANY
1t is just al this put that you reflect
for moment perhaps nd know that this {
station IS more than ,illion miles away
from the old union ashed and in the
very midst Of many-stOie1 sky scra pers 7
is typical of the Greater Ntlanta 1t feeds {
with incoming would-be cizens or waves
to q fifNf .
Atlanta good0y that will cntinue as far
as the seashtre or mountais.
Well Aoportioned Rom.
Beautifully a,ortioned is his main r
waiting room AID most converently fit
ted with all of thse inventions pat char
acterlze these moern days of coafort IN
travel There are no pillars or visible I
means of support E, mar the open effect +
or obstruct the viewof the pectato1fro,n ]
the entrance. ?
From this wide entesol foyers lea TO G
the ladies' waiting RON on the one she a
or the gentlemen's Wsfing room on to S
other, suggesting happy and pertinen. d
lv with the moving cswds except To-
the conventional traVe4,ly gowns and ,
business suits the prone ldes Of the old :,
Nefropolitan in the heigl If the grand 2
in sufficient numbers to lvide resting
niaces for the influx of an my of con-
yention delegates. ]
because it is still atternI this en-
closed marble court is hoode'with sun
1oht that streams in IRON ldoWs on IL
three sides and sl1yiiShts abe But if Il
Won viii wait long enough yowil find p
=; +ha waning light of a lonSe ternoon q
incandescent stars tWlnkhnS dle from 7,
heautifll clusters that mark thaarthly g.
nonstella tons of this eiectrlcdAge !,
No Tracks To Cros1. :.
AS YOU pass on through the mawait- or
ing room and into the wide coarse m
leading to the train shed to finest
Of the building it will be to find hr =
self beneath the shadow of nm
dous structure 230 feet wide and wv A.
long. Here, too, you will notice L h
the concourse or passage way "a n
which you have come is stu on le y;
with the plaz~ stretching across the ! IA
t,,r+le-back structure like the captain b
! bridge on a transatlantic steamer. An e
| from this overhead concourse you Wllx
! see that separate stairways lead to eacha
nair of railroad tracks below and ilff
! this way obviate all necessity OF having
tn cross any tracks.
And while perhaps you will have to
| look a little into the future to see TINS,
| it is because you have not the tecnnlcal
knowledge that can translate forty-eight
biz blue prints of working plans into
things of brick and stone and marble
and other materials as did Presideut
Tames w English of the Atlanta Ter