Vincennes, IN: Union Depot Hotel & Station and (VN) Tower

Depot: (Satellite)

Tower: (Satellite)

Jhonson Lara posted four images with the comment:

- Four views of the Vincennes Union Depot Hotel and Station. Built in 1870, the Vincennes Union Depot Hotel and Station was once a hub of the city. Countless people passed through the depot which was located about halfway between St. Louis and Cincinnati.

The last occupants to stay in the hotel were people displaced by the 1937 Ohio River flood. Most of the building was razed just a few months later. A small corner portion of the depot is all that remained of the original structure until in was demolished in 2021.

Scott Sorensen: what part of vincennes is that?

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Dennis DeBruler answered Scott's question
 It still shows up on a satellite map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/PySoosfF5v7c6KBB8

The B&O and C&EI were through routes. The Vandalia and Big Four were branches that terminated at the depot.

1944 Vincennes Quad @ 62,500

The 1915 map should show a bigger building, but it doesn't.

1915 Vincennes Quad @ 62,500

Feb 23, 1958 @ 24,000; AR1VSY000010128

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Junction and Bridge Tower

Darren Reynolds posted

Baltimore and Ohio Railroads 

"VN" tower 

Vincennes, Indiana 

Photo from The Archives of John W. Barriger

Larry McLin: That bridge over the Wabash River turned at that time. It's stationary now.

Jared Rearden: I maintain this territory now. The turntable is gone and so are the buildings, but there is still remnants of the old pole line system still on the bridge.

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