Central train depot at 57 Water Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Item
- Title
- Central train depot at 57 Water Street, Wakefield, Mass.
- Description
- Photos show the former railroad station located at 57 Water Street on the south side of the street opposite Vernon Street. Built around 1870 to 1873, the train station is of wood frame construction and has a deeply overhanging roof. The Center (or Centre) Depot allowed passengers to travel to Peabody and Salem via the South Reading Branch, or Danvers via the Newburyport Branch. The building housed the Depot Restaurant for many years, and now is home to Omelette Headquarters.
- Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pB2
- The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Photos taken at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
- Contributor
- Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
- Coverage
- Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
- 57 Water Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Creator
- Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
- Date
- 04-22-2008
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Publisher
- [Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
- Subject
- Railroad stations
- Omelette Headquarters (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Type
- still image
- Photographs
- Original Format
- 5 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color
- Item sets
- Current Photographs of Wakefield
