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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Laurel, 101 Lafayette Avenue, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD
Location101 Lafayette Avenue,
Laurel, MD
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS MD-973
Building/structure dates:
1884 initial construction
Significance: The Laurel B&O Station is significant as the only surviving railroad station in Prince George's County, and an example of decorative Victorian-era railroad architecture. It was designed by Baltimore architect Francis E. Baldwin who was responsible for most of the B&O's Maryland stations and two of its office buildings in Baltimore. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, one of the oldest in the nation, opened its Washington branch in 1835. The first and most important of three railways through Prince George's County, it entered Prince George's here in Laurel and continued in a southwesterly direction, carrying both freight and passengers, to Beltsville, College Park, Riverdale, Hyattsville and on to the District. The presence of the B&O in Laurel, as shown by this station, greatly affected its growth and prominence as a highly populated area of commerce, the industrial center of this agricultural county. The Laurel station is now the last of the old Washington Branch stations.
Subjects
Railroad Stations
Related Names
Baldwin, Francis E.
Lavoie, Catherine C., Historian
Boucher, Jack E., Photographer
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. SOUTHEAST FRONT TRACKSIDE ELEVATION, WITHOUT SCALE
2. SOUTHEAST FRONT TRACKSIDE ELEVATION, WITH STATIONMASTER
3. SOUTHEAST FRONT TRACKSIDE ELEVATION, WITH SCALE
4. VIEW, FROM EAST
5. VIEW, FROM NORTHEAST, SHOWS TRACK AND SRS143, A SPERRY (????) CAR USED TO TEST RAIL FOR CRACKS AND DEFECTS
6. GENERAL VIEW, SOUTHEAST FRONT, FROM SOUTH
7. DETAIL VIEW, BRACKET, SOUTHWEST END OF SOUTHEAST FRONT, FROM SOUTHWEST
8. SOUTHWEST (END) ELEVATION
9. GENERAL VIEW, NORTHWEST REAR, FROM NORTH
10. GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW OF WAITING ROOM, LOOKING WEST TOWARDS TICKET WINDOW AND DOORWAY INTO RESTROOM
11. GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW AS ABOVE WITH STATION MASTER
12. INTERIOR VIEW, DETAIL OF TICKET WINDOW AT SOUTHWEST WALL OF WAITING ROOM
13. INTERIOR VIEW, DETAIL OF METERED WARNING BELL (PRIOR TO ARRIVAL OF TRAINS), LOCATED IN TICKET OFFICE, SOUTHWEST WALL
14. DETAIL VIEW, SPERRY CAR TRUCK SHOWING SENSORS
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