The Fulda, Minnesota, USA, depot was constructed in 1880 and is the last Eastlake-style 2 story depot in southwest Minnesota listed on the National Register of Historic Places - 20 Jun 2013 Jimmy Emerson.

16 September 2013

Seeking Help With Historical Research

Lakefield Ontario - Can someone help with a bit of research please?
 
The railway station in Fulda is one of several hundred that used to be seen across much of Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, as well as along the rail line from Toronto to Ottawa.
 
Sadly, the Canadian Pacific Railway, on one early Monday morning, demolished all of the railway stations along the line here that were identical in nearly every shape and size to the Fulda station.
 
William Cornelius Van Horne, who had been the nominal president and general manager of the Minnesota Southern RR, and variously known in history books as the Southern Minnesota Railroad, one and the same, began that design of station in Lakefield.
 
When appointed to the Canadian Pacific Railway, after Maj. Gen. Thomas Rosser was fired, Van Horne introduced these stations to Canada.
 
In one fell-stroke, he saved thousands and thousands of dollars in rent costs and all sorts of other associated costs.
 
We are hoping someone wouldn't mind volunteering a few minutes to take photos of the restored interior of the station in Fulda so we can have a sense of what "our stations" must have looked like so we can have a permanent record here.
 
Also, the upstairs, whether or not it was restored into the station-master's family apartment, at least we will have a sense of what that, too, looked like.
 
We will credit anyone for volunteering for this small, but important project.
 
Thank you for your consideration.
 
Photos may be emailed to lkfd_her@cogeco.ca.
 
Gord Young - Lakefield Heritage Research.

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