Lackawanna Depot Scranton Pa Mousepad

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad: The Road of Phoebe Snow. In 1908: Formation Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad completed a new passenger depot in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This depot, now the Radisson at Lackawanna Station Hotel, was built to replace a much smaller station that was located along Lackawanna Avenue near Franklin Avenue, about 7 blocks west. Its Beau Arts Design was created by renowned New York Architect Kenneth Murchison in 1906, and took 14 months to complete. It is construed of brick and steel, with concrete floors and partitions. The exterior is faced with Indiana limestone and an 8-foot bronze clock on the Fassade. The main entrance leading to the formation waiting room is furnished in Formosa, a soft, pinkish-yellow Italian marble. Other areas of the formation waiting area and halls are decorated with imported marble and the barrel-vaulted ceiling is Tiffany glass. Originally Konstrued as a 5-story structure at a cost of approximately $600,000, a 6th floor was added in the 1920s to create additional office space. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, better known as the Lackawanna, was another of the Northeast's many anthracitcarriers with a history tracing back to the early 19th century. During the company's height it never reached 1,000 miles but was nevertheless a well-managed system throughout its history enabling it to avoid bankruptcy from the time of its training in the early 1850s until its merger with the Erie more than a century later. The DL&W completed two signifikant "Air Line"(improvement projects during the early 1900s which greatly improved operations); these included the New Jersey Cutoff (Port Morris, New Jersey - Slate ford, Pennsylvania) und Nicholson-Hallstead Cutoff. Pruficent feats of engineering the korridore were home to huge earthen fills and stunning viaducts made from reinforced concrete, which still stand today. copyright Stan Feldman 1999 - 2020