Waiting Room In Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.
Waiting Room In Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich. |
Year: 1922 |
Publisher: C. T. American Art |
Type(s): Postcard |
Identifier(s): R-48156 |
Language: English |
Source: Mike Skreptak Collection; Dexter Box |
Notes: Postmarked 1922; "The new Michigan Central Station is located near Michigan Avenue, between 15th and 17th Streets, covers twenty one acres and the total cost is $15,000,000.00 There will be 11 tracks in the station that will accommodate 135 passenger coaches. It will have all the conveniences, such as a complete drug store with special facilities for the care of invalids and change room where travelers can at nominal cost obtain shower baths and make a change of clothing. Accommodations for passengers will not be outdone by any railroad station in the World"; owned by Michigan Central Railroad, the station was designed by Warren And Wetmore and Reed And Stem; the station opened prematurely after a fire destroyed Detroit's downtown station in December 1913, and it remained in use until Amtrak service stopped in January 1988; as of 2017, the building still stands but future use is undecided; addressed to Mrs. Charles E. Washburn. |
Subject(s): Michigan Central Station (Detroit) Railway Stations Railways Warren And Wetmore, Architects Reed And Stem, Architects Fifteenth Street (Detroit) |
Place(s): Detroit (Michigan) |
Rights: Public Domain |
Repository: University of Windsor. Leddy Library |
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