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Money may prevent city from preserving Nebraska depot
It is an interesting looking building. It looks like masonary and wood at a guess. Not something easily moved. If you want another look with google street view try this address : 2514 12th St, Columbus, Nebraska
That’s too bad, but the quoted price is pretty high.
Kind of strange when you consider it’s a UP depot of a historical design. But the UP isn’t into preserving historical depot’s. Now if it was a steam engine, money would be no obstacle.
I wonder if a modern addition could be added to the present structure.
A unique looking building, too bad, time is against all things.
To be replaced by an ugly metal building. That’s a shame.
If you look at the old Carroll, Iowa Depot, it’s just as close to the UP main (about 12 feet or so). Sell it to the city for $1.00
and the city install nice rod-iron fencing (like in Carroll, IA)
on the south side near the rails, and make it into a chamber
of commerce building for Columbus, transportation museum etc. Carroll’s Chamber of Commerce resides in this beautiful
1890’s former passenger and freight depot.
I hope somebody can take it under their wing and give it the care it would need to restore it and make it once again an asset to its neighborhood. (Maybe the neighborhood is to blame fo the lack of interest in acquiring the building. I don’t know about Columbus, but a lot of cool stations are in neighborhoods that are no longer desirable.) It’s a distinguished-looking building; it would be a shame just to knock it down.
For all the beauty and history of the old depot, I’ll bet the new “ugly metal building” will be a more comfortable, more efficient place to work. It can take a tremendous amount of effort to make an old building, no matter how distinguished-looking, habitable for modern purposes. Sometimes it just isn’t worth the effort–look at all the distinguished old castles in ruins across Europe.
That said, I’ll wish the Columbus depot well once again.