Fall River Train Station
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Fall River Historical Society
Excerpt from 1800 Newspaper:
FALL RIVER – It is a remarkable fact in railroad construction during the past ten years, that instead of trying to erect cheap stations for passenger traffic, the better railroads throughout the country have tried to vie with each other in obtaining the best possible structure, embracing all modern improvements and all known appliances for the comfort and convenience of the general public. Instead of erecting the buildings of wood and brick, they have used the heaviest stone in construction, and used throughout material which will endure for a century, carrying out in every sense the idea of a permanent maintenance of way and construction.
In arranging for the new station at Fall River, the Old Colony Railroad Company have tried, and intend to provide, so far as possible, the best station of its kind ever erected, making it a model station building in the fullest sense of the word, sparing neither expense, experience nor labor in carrying out, to the minutest detail, every feature which might tend in any manner to produce this result.
Several plans were asked for and submitted to the railroad company. Those accepted and finally approved by the company were prepared by a New York architect, Mr. Bardford L. Gilbert, who has made a specialty of railroad structures for over twenty years, having erected the largest railway structure west of Chicago, for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at St. Paul Minn., also the largest general office building and union passenger station East of Boston, at Concord N.H. as well as numerous railway structures in New York city and throughout the country.