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The depot was completed in 1869. The architects were (Max) Corput and Bass. It was the main freight depot for the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. [1] A fire in 1935 destroyed the upper floors and the cupola. [1] In 1981 the building was renovated to accommodate events. It can accommodate 800 seated guests or 1300 standing. [2]
Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed is a former passenger depot and trainshed constructed in 1860 by the Central of Georgia Railway (CofG) before the outbreak of the American Civil War. This pair of buildings was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] a listing that was expanded in 1978 to the old Central of Georgia ...
1955 route map of the Central of Georgia, Georgia's Railroad History and Heritage at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-11-15) Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, "Chapter VI: The Central of Georgia Railroad System," A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860, New York, Columbia University Press, 1908.
The Georgia State Railroad Museum (formerly the Roundhouse Railroad Museum) is a museum in Savannah, Georgia located at a historic Central of Georgia Railway site. It includes parts of the Central of Georgia Railway: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities National Historic Landmark District .
The Georgia Railroad depot, which stands at the entrance of Underground Atlanta, remains the oldest building in downtown Atlanta. Although the depot was originally three stories tall, the second and third story were destroyed by fire in 1935. Besides the train station, the bustling district included hotels, banks, law offices, and saloons.
Central of Georgia Railway Company Shop Property is the former administration building of the Central of Georgia Railway.The site complex includes several notable structures, including a freight house, a cotton yard with brick gates which it shares with the Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed, and a brick viaduct leading to a junction with the line along Louisville Road west of Boundary ...
It is located at the junction of the Central's former Macon-Atlanta mainline and its branch to Thomaston, Georgia. The building includes Spanish or Mission architecture (red roof tile, tall chimney pots, and curvilinear gables) and replaced an earlier stone depot constructed in 1852 by the Macon & Western Railroad. It is now used as an arts center.
The commercial area includes a rehabilitated depot and warehouses along the railroad, and a number of brick and cast-concrete commercial buildings. The latter are mainly simple with little or no decoration. The commercial area includes: Byron Depot (c.1870 [3] or c.1900, [2] wood frame railroad depot and caboose, restored in recent years [3]