City - NY - The Grand Central Depot 1890
by Mike Savad
Title
City - NY - The Grand Central Depot 1890
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1890
Original title: Grand Central Terminal
Photographer: Unknown
Location: E 42nd st & Park Ave
You may have passed this intersection a hundred times or more, if you work here. This is Grand central station, as seen in 1890 as an entirely different building. There have actually been a total of four buildings on this spot, each getting progressively larger as the city grew.
The building on the left is the Grand central terminal, built in 1871, its original name was Snook's depot, named after the architect, John B Snook. Its hard to say how well that name stuck, I would guess, not that well, which is why we don't call it that now. The architecture was designed to look like Second Empire style, which was popular in the France. The building was removed in 1910, to make way for a much larger building.
Originally this was built with two tracks, that reached into north Harlem, from the station on 42nd street. In those days steam locomotives were not allowed past that point by law.
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April 16th, 2019
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