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.
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Local Subjects
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.)
Note
1871
1903.
Digitized by Mina Rees Library; City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center.