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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Station & Freight House, 98 Baltimore Road, Rockville, Montgomery County, MD

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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Station & Freight House, 98 Baltimore Road, Rockville, Montgomery County, MD

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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

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Date

1933 - 1970
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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
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Location

Rockville (Md.)39.08250, -77.14489
Google Map of 39.0825035, -77.1448894
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