Title
Grand Central Depot, 1870's.
Creators and Contributors
Description
East 42nd Street and Park Avenue North. Grand Central Depot - 1870's. Grand Central Depot opened in 1871 for the New York and Harlem Railroad and the New Haven Railroad. Architect: John B. Snook in association with engineer Isaac C. Buckhout. Original glass and metal train shed designed by R.G. Hatfield. Snook and Buckhout's designed the depot in the American Second Empire Style using red pressed brick and cast iron trim. The train shed was razed in 1903 when construction for the new Grand Central Terminal began.
Date Created
1871 to 1879
Type of Resource
Photograph
Additional Information
General note:
1871
1903.
Digitized by Mina Rees Library; City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center.
Extent:
1 photographic reproduction ; 24.3 x 16.5 cm.- Forty-second Street (New York, N.Y.)
- Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)
- Street life
- Decoration and ornament -- Second Empire style
- Transportation buildings
- Railroad stations
- Second Empire
- Mansard roofs
- Cupolas
- Quoins
- Bricks
- Cast iron
- Murray Hill Neighborhood (New York, N.Y.)
