Union Station (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

Union Station
Location 300 Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr., Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°5′36″N 80°13′42″W / 36.09333°N 80.22833°W / 36.09333; -80.22833Coordinates: 36°5′36″N 80°13′42″W / 36.09333°N 80.22833°W / 36.09333; -80.22833
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1926 (1926)
Architect Fellhimer & Wagner; et.al.
Architectural style Beaux Arts
NRHP Reference # 98001547[1]
Added to NRHP December 24, 1998

Union Station, also known as Davis Garage, is a historic train station located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was designed by Fellhimer & Wagner and built between 1924 and 1926. It is a one- to three-story, banked Beaux-Arts style steel frame building faced with brick and limestone. It consists of a rectangular main body, five bays wide and eight bays deep, with a large square east wing. The front facade features a limestone portico supported by paired heroic columns with stylized Corinthian order capitals. Surrounding the building are some surviving original landscape features. The station served as the city's sole passenger train station between 1926 and 1970.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Laura A. W. Phillips (June 1998). "Union Station" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.


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