Jamestown Depot

Photograph

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Tuolumne County Historical Society

Name/Title

Jamestown Depot

Entry/Object ID

TP20422

Description

Railroad Station, Jamestown, Cal. 2 neg. only (Ferington description) A two storied building with clapboard siding. Cream colored with brown trim. (In black and white on the negative of course, but we have color images). The lower floor has an awning above the ticket window. It is of wood construction supported by three cables guyed to the upper story. To the left of the ticket window is a door into the interior, then a window prior to the end of the building. Going the other way (towards the camera), past the end of the awning, a doorway opens to stairs up to the upper floor. Then a window prior to the end of the building. The building looks to be about 50 feet long. On the upper story starting from the camera end, There are two windows above the downstairs window and the staircase. The others end of the building is unique as there is a bay window arrangement. There is a narrow window over the awning, four windows making up the bay arrangement, then another narrow one prior to the end of the building. The camera end (warehouse end) has two doors on the bottom floor and one window off centered to the right. The second image shows a different treatment on the north end of the building. There are four windows. Two paired in the middle and one at each end 3 to 4 feet from the ends. Upstairs are six windows. Four in the center, and one each above the singles on the bottom floor. This image also gives us a view of the warehouse closely placed to the depot/office. It is a single story structure, dark in color. We also have a good view down the tracks to the water tank. We can also see the trackage arrangements. Three vehicles are parked at the end of the building. An elderly pickup truck (proably a Chevrolet), a mid to late thirties sedan, most likely a GM product. The rear doors are what we call "suicide doors". It may have hood strakes such as Buick used, hard to tell. The middle car is definitely an Oldsmobile, most likely a 1954. The depot was burned to the ground by an arsonist in 1978. Type: still camera Color: no

Collection

TCHS - Tuolumne County Historical Society

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