Many stations were very simple and utilitarian in nature while others closely followed the architectural fashions of the era.
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It is supported by large knee brackets and has a band of decorative moulding at the edge.
Upon its opening the los angeles times praised the arcade station as second to none on the pacific slope.
Five hundred feet long the depot s rail shed featured skylights and an arched roof that soared 90 feet above the platforms below.
The depot is a single story red brick italianate structure measuring about 325 feet in length and 44 feet in width.
The one story brick structure is a typical railroad depot with a rectangular plan paralleling the railroad tracks a hipped roof and a projecting bay affording a view up and down the line.
The saugus train station opened 11 years later on sept.
Cookman s hipped roof victorian stations can be spotted along the former pennsylvania railroad mainline stretching almost to chicago.
To accommodate hungry travelers a cafe known as tolfree s saugus eating house was established at the north end of the depot.
The main roof has a cornice studded with sawn brackets but only covers the structure.
Although railroad depots have many similar characteristics a broad low roof atop of small rectangular one story building often of masonry construction architectural details varied quite a bit.
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The building sits on a foundation of light brownish sandstone with a whitish sandstone sillcourse running on top.
A large crane lifted the roof.
It was taken over by martin and richard wood in 1898 who changed the name to saugus.
Charles sumner frost designed over 100 structures.
The depot itself was a massive wooden victorian structure reminiscent of european train stations.
A lower roof provides shelter around the exterior for pedestrians.
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The building has two story blocks measuring 23 feet by 45 feet extending from the roof at either end.
1 1887 when the southern pacific railroad completed a spur line to ventura.
The depot is a small rectangular single story wood frame structure with a hip roof.
The station was built in 1901 to a design by the union pacific s engineering department.