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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Passenger Depot

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1887
  • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Passenger Depot (West Virginia Division of Tourism, David Fattaleh)
  • (West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

This two-story brick rendition of a building type more often done in frame still maintains its metal trackside awning. Supported on brackets, the awning wraps around a two-story polygonal bay at the center of the facade. The Huntington & Big Sandy Railroad, a short-haul line that ran along the Ohio River between Huntington and Kenova to the west, built the depot. The depot later became a passenger station on the B&O, which absorbed the Huntington line in 1901. It now houses a restaurant.

Writing Credits

Author: 
S. Allen Chambers Jr.

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