. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Figurehead of Battleship Missouri. 38 SAL\T LOUIS. SAIXT LOUIS 39 UNION STATION. The larj^est in the worhl, covers eleven acres,extending from i8th to 20th streets, fronting onMarket and extending back to Clark the power house it covers an area oftwenty acres. All passenger trains into and out ofSaint Louis arrive and depart at Union StationThe Grand Central Hall has a floor area of eightthousand eight hundred square feet, the Midway issix hundred feet, by fifty feet, the train shed sixhundred and thirty feet by six hundred a
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Figurehead of Battleship Missouri. 38 SAL\T LOUIS. SAIXT LOUIS 39 UNION STATION. The larj^est in the worhl, covers eleven acres,extending from i8th to 20th streets, fronting onMarket and extending back to Clark the power house it covers an area oftwenty acres. All passenger trains into and out ofSaint Louis arrive and depart at Union StationThe Grand Central Hall has a floor area of eightthousand eight hundred square feet, the Midway issix hundred feet, by fifty feet, the train shed sixhundred and thirty feet by six hundred and sixfeet. The corner stone was laid in July 1893. In the building a free treatment of the Roma-nesque style was used, as best adapted to express byhistorical association the purposes of the struc-ture, intended as an elaboration of the feudal gate-way. The tower is two hundred and thirty feethigh, with four clock dials ten feet in diameter. The principal facades on Market and Eigh-teenth Streets are faced with Bedford (Indiana)limestone, backed with red bricks. The roofs ofSpanish tiles. The eas
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