Modern Federal · Railroad stations

Looking across from behind an upper-level balcony's elegant statue to another across the vast former grand hall of the former St. Louis Union Station, which, at its opening in 1894, was the world's largest train station

St. Louis, Missouri · 1850–1939

Looking across from behind an upper-level balcony's elegant statue to another across the vast former grand hall of the former St. Louis Union Station, which, at its opening in 1894, was the world's largest train station, St. Louis, Missouri, 1850–1939
Looking across from behind an upper-level balcony's elegant statue to another across the vast former grand hall of the former St. Louis Union Station, which, at its opening in 1894, was the world's largest train station, St. Louis, Missouri, 1850–1939. Railroad stations — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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