Kent, OH: Erie and B&O Depots and Flour Mill

Erie Depot: (3D Satellite)

B&O Depot: (3D Satellite)

Grain Elevator: (3D Satellite)
 

Erie Depot

Google Maps labels the building Treno Ristorante. I went to their web site because sometimes when a business preserves a building they describe the history of that building. Unfortunately, the hours indicates "Permanently Closed" and the content implies they were a victim of Covid-19.

Street View

The upper level was Erie and the lower level was B&O. The river is Cuyahogo, which I recognize as the one that flows through Cleveland, OH.

Jacqueline Crandall Fafrak posted
The Trains are Alright. 1985
Jeffrey Camila shared
Raymond Shields: This is Kent, Ohio the CSX train is going east.
Dennis DeBruler: The building was obviously the Erie depot. I wonder where B&O had their depot.

Richard Wagner posted
Erie-Lackawanna Line Kent,Ohio in the 1950s.
Brenda Messera: In the 1950's this would have just been the Erie. The merger with the Lackawanna did not take place until 1960.
JT Bellino: A man walked into a travel agency in NY and said, “I need to get to Chicago in the worst way.” The travel agent answered, “The Erie ticket office is around the corner.” 😉
Em Schofield: And that E8 is still around and for sale by the company that currently owns it.
John Carr: Nice Italianate depot, fairly large and ornate for a small town depot dating probably from the 1880s. The photo looks to be only partly colorized. Wouldn't the Erie E unit have been dark green and yellow in the 1950s?
Chuck Killian: This is the worst colorization I have ever seen!

I couldn't resist including the grain elevator and the "Erie St." street sign.

Street View

Jim Francis posted
Penthouse view from the new building at Franklin and Erie its a nice view.
Thomas Wentzel shared
RR DEPOT KENT OHIO 12/10/21

B&O Depot

The B&O depot is still standing, but barely. The square hole near the chimney was made April 19, 2016, by firefighters to help fight a fire. "Built in 1905, the Kent station last saw passenger service on April 30, 1971. Kent was a flag stop for B&O Nos. 7 and 8, the Shenandoah, which ran on a daytime schedule between Akron and Washington, D.C. The Chicago-Washington Capitol Limited passed by but did not stop." [Craig Sanders via akronrrclub]

Street View, Oct 2020

Street View

 

Portage County Ohio Historical Society posted
Last remaining Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train station in Portage County, Ohio, located on the north side of Summit Street in Kent, just east of the Cuyahoga River. It was built December-January 1904-1905, and served as a passenger depot. The Portage County communities of Ravenna, Charlestown, and Wayland also had B&O stations that are now gone.
Rod Davis shared
[The comments have a 1907 photo of the Freedom, OH, depot. It had the same design as this one.]

Grain Elevator

It looks like the "grain elevator" is a flour mill because there is a pneumatic trailer parked on the north side. It must still active be because there are covered hoppers parked at the mill.

Street View

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At least at one time the name was "Star of the West Milling Co."

Street View