The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-31
DBso'l ACCEPTED
r UNION DEPOT.
Hermitage Site Location for
Million Dollar Station and
Office Building,
EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE
r., F. & P. and A. C. L. Will
Occupy New Structure Jointly.
Begin Construction Soon.

Designs have been approved. and IS
soon as plans can be drawn. bids Will
be called for the construction Of
sl,00o000 union passenger station. to
be used jointly by the Richmond. Fred
cricksburg and Potomac and Atlantic
Coast Line Railroads, on the Hermitage
Club site, on West Broad Street. 1t liz
expected that actual construction will
begin before spring. When completed
IL Will be one of the handsomest struc-
lures in the city. and Will be used not
only as station. but as the offices or
the two lines.
The main building will set back 100
feet from the property line. and Will
face Broad Street. a park viii run
the full length OF the block, and be.
tween it and the building proDer VIII
ture will be 244 feet in length and los
feet in depth. The concourse in it's
rear will be 900 feet long and sixty-hve
feet wide. 1t will be open at each end.
and will have exits on both sides or
the main building. There will be seven
tracks. with twenty-foot platforms.
Tho baggage. mail and express rooms
will be in special building 5Ox20O
feet.
Three Floors for Offices.
with the basement. the station Will
have Ave floors. the three upper ones
being for the general Offices The
main, or street floor, will be for the
public The general waiting-room
opens directly on the driveway. In di-
mansions 1t will be 57x105 feet. Tho
womcn's waitinE-room is twenty-eight
by thrty-one feet. in addition to the
retiring rooms. On tho opposite side
of the building will be the mems wait
ling rooms, which is identical in size.
The main restaurant. which is NIFTY
three by forty-five feet, and has seat
ing capacity of more than 100. Will be
in the northeast corner OF the main
floor. The kitchen Will be In its rear.
and lunch counter will be operated in
connection with IL
The colorcd waiting room Is in the
northwest corner of the street floor.
and will be forty-six by fifty-one feet
These quarters, while not as large as
the white department, will be as com
pletc.
All Convenience mt Hand.
Ticket offices Will open IN both the
general and tho colored waiting rooms
Parcel and baggage-roons, Telegraph
and telephone stations and booths ano
news counters are all located conve'
niently and front on the main waiting
room. Two passenger elevators, reach
ed from the main floor. will run TO the
upper stories. which will be used Z:
Offices.
The structure is designed by Johr
Russell Pope, Of New York, and with
more The concoursc. baggage, mai
and express building. platforms, SHEDS
and tracks and landscape gardening
Will entail an expenditure or probnbl!
100000 more. making the approx
mate cost Of the plant about sl,coe,ooo
The Grecian style Of architecture i
TO be followed. This lends itself Il
maximum Of dignity and permanency
yet gives an economical. direct am
simple structure. The plan gives IN
waiting-room simple. well proper
toned, well-lighted and well-ventilat
ed room, free from columns. moor OBJ
structions, balcony or compiicate
wall arrangements. The room Will b
treated in plaster stone with mar
BILE wainscot and floor
At either end OF the waiting-r room
but separated. are the special room
for men and women. whilo the remain
Ing floor requirements arc convenient
Is disposed OF. each being well light
ed and ventilated. and allowing
clean. simple and symmetrical finish.
Externally. 4 collonade entrance mo