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BWPhotos 378610
Location455 Boston Post Road,
Old Saybrook, CT
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CT-466-B
Building/structure dates:
1912 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1920 subsequent work
Significance: The Old Saybrook Railroad Station Interlocking Tower (1912) is significant as it is a rare, surviving example of a railroad interlocking, or switch tower. The Tower is one of three remaining timber-framed interlocking towers on the former New Haven Railroad main line, and is also significant for the retention of its manual switch machinery. The Interlocking Tower is also historically significant as evidence of Old Saybrook's importance as a railroad junction, and illustrates the development of railroad communications and safety technology.
Subjects
TowersBuilding DeteriorationRailroad Industry
Related Names
Brewster, Robert, Photographer
Kierstead, Matthew A., Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
View looking southwest
View looking northeast
Interior, second floor, looking east showing interlocking machine
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