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Union Station, Water Street, Montgomery

Union Station, Water Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL. Surveyed as HAER ALA,51-MONG,24-, with a 144-word written history.

From the record

“Montgomery's Union Station in an impressive Romanesgue structure, and an excellent example of late century commercial architecture.”

Written record, HAER ALA,51-MONG,24- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER ALA,51-MONG,24- · the record runs 144 words · one of 36 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

77 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER ALA,51-MONG,24-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Montgomery's Union Station in an impressive Romanesgue structure, and an excellent example of late century commercial architecture. Its size, the ambitionsness of its-design, and its opulence of material make the station an impressive monument to turn-of-the-century rail transport. Transmitted by: Monica E. Hawley, Historian, ADDENDUM TO: HAER AL-2 UNION STATION HAER ALA,51-MONG,24- Water Street Montgomery Montgomery County Alabama FIELD RECORDS HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior C Street NW Washington, DC

In context

Montgomery, Alabama The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Montgomery County, Alabama 73 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Montgomery

24 of 35 records shown

The federal surveyors worked through Montgomery building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Jenkins Brick CompanyHAER AL-18538,973 words
Western Railway of Alabama Montgomery Rail ShopsHAER AL-18633,254 words
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist ChurchHABS AL-99416,585 words
Atlantic Ice & Coal CompanyHAER AL-18814,283 words
Montgomery Powder MagazineHABS AL-102013,878 words
Alabama State CapitolHABS ALA,51-MONG,1-3,236 words
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church ParsonageHABS AL-9971,867 words
Maxwell Air Force BaseHABS ALA,51-MONT,1B-1,634 words
Ben Moore HotelHABS AL-10031,609 words
First White House of the ConfederacyHABS ALA,51-MONG,13-1,264 words
Maxwell Air Force BaseHABS ALA,51-MONG,25-1,155 words
Louisville & Nashville RailroadHAER ALA,51-MONG,23A-766 words
Garrett-Hatchett HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,14-657 words
Seibels-Ball-Lanier HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,17-615 words
Owens-Teague HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,6-609 words
John Murphy HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,3-597 words
Stone-Young-Baggett HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG.V,1-557 words
Oliver-Housman HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,15-500 words
Gilmer-Shorter-Lomax HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,7-488 words
Gerald HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,4-459 words
St. John's Episcopal ChurchHABS ALA,51-MONG,22-456 words
Winter BuildingHABS ALA,51-MONG,2-451 words
Sayre-Troy HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,21-417 words
Hilliard-Nicrosi-Diffly HouseHABS ALA,51-MONG,18-394 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER ALA,51-MONG,24-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from the linked federal record; page labels and counts are clearly marked as site presentation or calculations.