Pen and ink drawings of the Coraopolis Train Station’s most prominent Romanesque features.
Image is of the station’s pre-renovated state.
Photo by Tim Engleman/Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0
Built in 1896, the Coraopolis Train Station is one of only three structures in the Pittsburgh area designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, successors of American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. This Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad train station showcases signs of Richardson’s Romanesque architecture style with its round-arch windows and low, hip-roofed structures. The building’s tan sandstone and red mortar creates a polychrome brickwork, distinguishing this station’s unusual masonry from the rest of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge’s Pittsburgh buildings [1]
The Coraopolis Train Station saw its last train stop in 1985 and is currently in the process of being restored by the Coraopolis Community Development Corporation. For more info on the Coraopolis Train Station and its restoration project, visit Coraopolis Train Station Project.
Pen and ink drawings of the Coraopolis Train Station’s most prominent Romanesque features.
Top image displays the Coraopolis station while in use; Bottom image is of the station’s pre-renovated state.
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