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Friday, January 18, 2008
Studies Created by Noted Architect Cass Gilbert for the Pelham Manor
Station
A lovely stone train station designed by nationally-renowned architect
Cass Gilbert once stood in the Village of Pelham Manor on the so-called
branch line. The station replaced an earlier wooden structure and stood at
the end of the Esplanade at track level along the train tracks that now
serve Amtrack and freight trains. The station was razed in the mid-1950s
to make way for I-95 (the New England Thruway).
I have posted a few pictures of the station to the Historic Pelham Blog
in the past. See:
Friday, June 8, 2007:
Photographs of Pelham Manor Station and the City Island Station on the
Branch Line Published in 1916.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007:
Photograph of Pelham Manor Station on the Branch Line Published in 1908.
The Library of Congress has in its collections what appear to be two
wonderful "studies" of the station prepared by Cass Gilbert as he designed
the structure. One of them is particularly intriguing because it shows two
views of the station and was drawn on the verso of a "used bridge whist
score card". Both studies were created in about 1907.
Sadly, it appears that high resolution digital copies of the studies
are not available in the online digital collections of the Library of
Congress. All that is available are two so-called "thumbnail" images
showing the studies. Below are the two thumbnails, each followed by a link
to the pertinent bibliographic data Web page on the Library of Congress
Web site.
The bibliographic data for the studies immediately above may be viewed by
clicking here.
The bibliographic data for the studies immediately above may be viewed by
clicking here.
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