The passenger depot of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad at Rochester, N. Y, is a terminal headstation, plans for which were published in the issue of the Railway Review of August 27, 1887; in the issue of the Scientific American (Architects and Builders' Edition) of November, 1886; and in the issue of the RaIlroad Gazeite of March 20, 1885. The description of the building in the Scientific American is as follows:
The new depot is located on the south side of Court Street, near the river. The style of the architecture is based on the modern Renaissance, being treated in a free and unconventional manner suitable for this class of building. On the first story there is a general waiting-room. 38 ft. x 35 ft., with a gentlemen's toilet-room opening from it. Also a ladies' waiting-room opening from it, with a ladies' toilet-room attached. There is also a baggage-room, 39 ft. x 15 ft. ; all agent's room, with ticket-office; a news-stand; and a telegraph-office. On the second story there are a superintendent's office. conductors' room, division freight agent's office, hall, lobby, and toilet-room. The main building is 76 ft. x 60 ft. A tower on the northeast corner rises to the height of 110 ft. above the pavement. Brick and stone have been used for the walls, with Medina stone laid up in regular courses of ashlar, with quarry faces and chiselled draught below the first-floor sills. Above this point the exterior courses of walls are laid up with ressed brick in black mortar. Window-sills, bracket corbels, key-stones, and first-story sill-course are of Ohio sandstone. Trimmings of terra-cotta and moulded brick are freely used in belt and string courses and in the arches. The roofs of main building and awnings are covered with slate and copper. and the roofs of wings with tin. The interior of the building will be finished in wtrite ash and cherry, the floors of waiting-rooms and vestibules laid with black andwhite marble tiles, and the floors of the toilet-room with slate tiles. An open staircase in oak, ash, and cherry is located in the tower. Steam will be used to heat the building. and electricity for lighting. The tower clock has four soft. glass dials, and will be lighted automatically by electricity. A train-shed 270 ft. long and 72 ft. wide, of ornamental design, in iron, is to be erected adjoining. The cost of passenger station and train-shed will be upward of $50,000. The work is being executed under the direction of C. W. Buchholz, engineer, from drawings and designs of George E. Archer, architect to the company.
BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMEBICAN RAILROADS.; Walter G. Berg; 1893; pages 389-390