Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Station & Freight House, 98 Baltimore Road, Rockville, Montgomery County, MD
Summary
Significance: Located on the Metropolitan Line of the B & O Railroad, the Rockville passenger station has served the area's transportation needs continuously since its openings in 1873. A simple, well executed example of Ruskinian Gothic Revival architecture, the station was built according to a standard design used by the B & O in the 1870's for several of its smaller stations.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50, FN-51, FN-52, FN-53, FN-54, FN-55
Survey number: HABS MD-238
Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1874 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1887 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Baldwin (?), E Francis
Payson, Kenneth, project manager
Clarke, Bob, field team
Fine, Jonathan, field team
Potter, Durward N, field team
Hamp, Philip, historian
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Location
Rockville (Md.), 39.08250, -77.14489
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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