File:Book of the Royal blue (1897) (14574543579).jpg

Identifier: bookofroyalblue05balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ving the railroad facade one story inheight, with the main facade on the streettwo stories high. It is constructed ofgray pressed brick with brown sandstonetrimmings. The general w.iiting-roomoccupies the center of the building, withthe height of both floors. It is 70 feetlong by..)() wide and has a seating capacity of l.)0. Opening upon it on the lowerfloor are the ticket office, news stand, tele-phone and telegraph booths, while thewomens retiring room, mens smokingroom, baggage room and several offices areon the second floor. From the general waiting-room a separatesuliway reaches to each track, avoiding thenecessity of passengers crossing the tracksto and from trains. The interior woodwork is of ((uarteredoak and the floor of the main waiting-roomis marble mosaic. The roof of the entirestructure is covered with red tile, .Spanishdesign. A .!0-foot driveway of limestone and a10-foot cement walk lead to the stationfrom Mahoning .Xvenue, artistically fringedwith lawn and flower beds.
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THE GARY SISTERS AND THE OLD HOMESTEAD. A LITERARY LANDMARK OF CINCINNATL FROM TIIK SOlTHWESTFRN S HOOK. A LITTLE back troni the much-trav-eled dusty highroad, where jinglingmilk wagons and rumbling trolleycars forever disturb the countrypeace, stands a modest house, whose bigchimneys and wide paneled doors with old-fashioned brass knocker proclaim it to beof a former generation, when homes werebuilt with a view toward durabilitj ratherthan for present show. To the left three large pillars support anupper porch, to which access is had fromtwo bed-rooms and from a narrow passageand a precipitous flight of steps from thefront rooms of the upper story. Underthese pillars is a paving of blue flagstones,leading to a cool never-failing well of water,and farther on toward tlie red barn. Re-garding these paving stones a curious storyis told. They once formed the flat bed ofa near-by creek. They were numberedand carefully taken up and replaced intheir present location in the same order asNatur

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