Union Station (Salisbury, Maryland)
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 Union Station in 2014 | |
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| Location | 611 Railroad Ave., Salisbury, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°22′16″N 75°35′35″W / 38.37111°N 75.59306°W |
| Area | 0.7 acres (0.28 ha) |
| Built | 1913 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 07000389[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 2, 2007 |
Union Station is a historic railway station located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1913–14, near the junction where the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad intersected with the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad (later, the Baltimore & Eastern Railroad) in the center of Salisbury. Both railroads became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It has a 1+1⁄2-story, Flemish bond brick main block covered by a medium-pitched hip roof sheathed in slate, with single-story wings. It was converted from a passenger station into a freight facility around 1958, and since 1986, used for other commercial purposes. The building has characteristics of the Colonial Revival style and was the most elaborate passenger facility to survive on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.[2]
Union Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
Passenger service
Until the mid-1950s the Pennsylvania Railroad ran the day train, the Del-Mar-Va Express from Philadelphia in the north, through Salisbury to Cape Charles, Virginia to the southern end of the Delmarva Peninsula. The PRR in the same period operated a night train, the Cavalier on the route.[3]
Into the 1930s the Baltimore and Eastern Railroad operated passenger service from Love Point on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay through Salisbury to Ocean City, Maryland.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Paul B. Touart (October 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Union Station" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Railroad, Table 65". Official Guide of the Railways. 87 (7). National Railway Publication Company. December 1954.
- ^ "Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company". Official Guide of the Railways. 64 (9). National Railway Publication Company. February 1932.
- ^ "Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company". Official Guide of the Railways. 71 (3). National Railway Publication Company. August 1938.
External links
- Union Station, Wicomico County, including photo from 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust
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