Roanoke Passenger Station/A Thought

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I doubt it was intended that way, the use of stainless was much more 
common in commercial buildings as an architectural feature during the 
1940s. Secondly, personally I seriously doubt that Lowey himself had 
much to do with the project other than possibly looking over the final 
plans.  The design was by Lowey's firm, the architects name was Allmon 
Fordyce as reported in Railway Age, in an article on the station in 
August of 1949. In the bigger scheme of things, this was a small 
project to the firm. The railroad began redesign of the place as far 
back as 1940, but those plans came to a stop with the war.

Ken Miller
On Mar 13, 2005, at 8:36 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

>        What do you think? Did the Roanoke Station in the fifties 
> remind you of a coal mine? If so, do you think Lowey intended it that 
> way given the N&W's service to the coal industry?