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Union Terminal
Union Terminal: CUT facade construction
Union Terminal: Photocopy of photograph c. 1931, photographer unknown STRUCTURAL FRAMING OF DOME, LOOKING SOUTHWEST DURING CONSTRUCTION - Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1301 Western Avenue, HABS OHIO,31-CINT,29-15
Union Terminal: CUT HABS clock

Photo: Related names: Fellheimer, Alfred Wagner, Stewart Reiss, Winold Boudelle, Pierre Cret, Paul Keck, Maxfield · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Station · Cincinnati, United States

Union Terminal

On the globe
Dated
Dated 1929–33
Declared purpose
Union railroad station
Today
Survives, museum center and station
Build time
About 4 years
Region
United States
Architect of record
Fellheimer & Wagner, architects: about when credited (1929, born ). Build time on record: about 4 years.All architects of record →
On the list as
Documented

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

An Art Deco station with one of the largest half-domes in the world.

  1. A half-dome

    Its front is a single huge half-dome.

  2. Too late

    It opened as rail travel was falling.

Questions worth asking

  • Why build so big as rail declined?

Possible original uses

  • Station
  • Museum

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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