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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station (Oakland)

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Built
  
1884 (1884)

Opened
  
1884

Architecture firm
  
Baldwin & Pennington

NRHP Reference #
  
74000953

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
5 February 1974

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station (Oakland)

Location
  
Liberty Street, Oakland, Maryland

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

Similar
  
Herrington Manor State Park, Deep Creek Lake State Park, Swallow Falls State Park, Garrett County Historical, Wisp Ski Resort

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, Oakland is a historic railroad station located at Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland. It is a large brick structure with a two-story central section featuring a cylindrical tower with a domed cap and one-story wings extending from each end along the railroad tracks. It was designed by Baldwin and Pennington, and built in 1884 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad across the tracks and a meadow from the Railroad's Oakland Hotel, which opened in 1876, to support the development of Oakland and Garrett County as a resort area. It is one of the finest remaining examples in Maryland of a Queen Anne style railroad station.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It was revived for service on Amtrak's Shenandoah between 1976 and 1981. The city of Oakland bought the station in 1998, and in 2000 restored it with help from the State of Maryland.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station (Oakland) Wikipedia