page_title: Mount Clemens station
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Clemens station / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Mt Clemens, Michigan, railroad depot.
context_page_description: Mount Clemens station is a historic railroad depot located at 198 Grand Street in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Young Thomas Edison learned telegraphy at this station. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 as the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Mount Clemens Station and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973. It is now operated as the Michigan Transit Museum.
context_section_description: The Grand Trunk Western Rail Station in Mount Clemens is a one-story Italianate building, rectangular in plan and constructed of bricks on a stone foundation. The walls are mostly red brick, with yellow brick quoins and window hoods, and wooden trim.  A wooden walkway runs the length of the street side of the building.  The shingled gabled roof is supported with wooden brackets, and eaves extend eight feet from the walls.  The long sides of the building are divided into five bays of arches.  Of the five street side bay arches, three contain large windows, one contains a double entrance door, and the fifth arch is bricked with a small double-hung window inset.  Of the five track side bay arches, two contain large windows, two contain double entrance doors, and the fifth arch is covered by a small projecting addition, which is a 1980s reconstruction of an 1880s telegraph operator's booth.  The shorter, gabled ends are divided into two bays of arched windows, with a recessed ocular window above.
  The interior of the structure is divided into two main parts:  The southern section is the waiting room, and has wooden floors, wooden ceiling, and plaster walls with wainscoting.  Entrances to a restroom and storage room are to one side.   The northern section of the building is the staff work area, and has concrete floors, painted wooden ceiling, and plaster walls with wainscoting.  An office and mechanical room are on one side, and the re-created telegraph bay is on the other.  The dividing wall between the southern and northern section holds an access door and a re-created ticket office window, with a brass grill is from the demolished Grand Trunk Brush Street depot in Detroit.
  North of the depot is a c. 1893 wooden clapboard water closet.  It has a single entrance on one side and boarded windows on the other three.
caption: Station c. 1859
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