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Summary
Significance: Two-story brick rectangular building, 256 feet long by 65 feet wide. The second floor, 20 feet above the first, is suspended on four rows of forty 2 inch diameter iron rods that connect the floors' summer beams with the roof truss above, giving a clear opening through the entire first floor area with no interior posts or load bearing walls. The building is vacant and exhibits some deterioration of the roof sheathing, planking, and trusses. The present structure was built in 1882.
Survey number: HAER PA-137-B
Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction
Tags
railroad shops and yards
brick buildings
transportation industry
building deterioration
west easton
railroad
lehigh valley railroad
easton
car
shops
easton car shops
canal street
northampton
northampton county
pennsylvania
charles a best
veal w condit
duncan hay
historic american engineering record
jet lowe
peter h stott
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
library of congress
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Condit, Veal W
Best, Charles A
Stott, Peter H, historian
Hay, Duncan, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
West Easton
,
40.68094, -75.22431
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html