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The Waterbury Union Station building clock tower is in Waterbury, Connecticut, on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. (Photo by Ted Shaffrey) The Waterbury Union Station building is located on Meadow Street in the city of Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. It is a brick building dating to the first decade of the 20th century.
English: View of the Great Hall in Union Station, Washington, D.C., on June 16, 2024. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, Union Staion is the southern terminus of the Northeast Corridor, an electrified rail line extending north through major cities including Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, and the busiest passenger rail line in the United States.
St. Patrick's Hall, 112–118 East Main Street. Joseph A. Jackson , the son of an Irish immigrant builder, designed this 1889 brick Romanesque structure with a brownstone front facade . His credit as architect, and the building's use, marked the social arrival of Waterbury's Irish American community.
The current Union Station is the third such station to exist in New Haven; the first station, designed by Henry Austin, was opened in 1848 by the New York and New Haven Railroad. [27] It was replaced by a new station in a different part of the city in 1879, under the auspices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad .
The Canaan Union Depot, also known as the Union Depot, is located in Canaan Village, in the town of North Canaan, Connecticut, and is a former union station. It was built in 1872 at the junction of the Housatonic Railroad and the Connecticut Western Railroad which was acquired by the Central New England Railway .
Town green and surrounding structures including the First Congregational Church (1838), Memorial Hall (1896), a community meeting building (c. 1884), Academy Elementary School (1884), and Lee Academy (1821), as well as historic houses, notably the Deacon John Grave House.
The main public areas in this district are Centennial (aka Franklin) Square, City Hall (aka Union) Square and Howard T. Brown Memorial Park. The offices of the Norwich Bulletin are located in the former railroad station, most recently the site of the St. Vincent De Paul soup kitchen.
A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages. It continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.