Gassaway station
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Gassaway Depot | |
Location | Between 4th and 5th Sts., Gassaway, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 38°40′16″N 80°46′36″W / 38.67111°N 80.77667°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1914 |
Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 94000215[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 17, 1994 |
Gassaway station, also known as Coal & Coke Railway Company Depot, is a historic railway depot located at Gassaway, Braxton County, West Virginia. It was built in 1914, by the Coal and Coke Railway and later acquired by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It is a two-story, brick and stone, Romanesque Revival-style building measuring 78 feet wide and 35 feet deep. It features two projecting pavilions, each 26 feet long and projecting 6 feet. It has a hipped roof with red ceramic "French tile." Passenger service ceased in 1953, and the depot continued use as a maintenance shop through 1988.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 as the Gassaway Depot.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Michael Gioulis and Jane Dyer (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Gassaway Depot" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
Categories:
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Romanesque Revival architecture in West Virginia
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1914
- Buildings and structures in Braxton County, West Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Braxton County, West Virginia
- Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations
- Former railway stations in West Virginia
- Southern United States railway station stubs
- West Virginia building and structure stubs
- West Virginia transportation stubs
- Mountain Lakes, West Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs