HomeMy WebLinkAboutTrain Station_Courier_10/09/2011 5A» Sunday,October9 ,2011 N THE JUPITER COURIER
� YOUR VIEW �
JUPITER DEPOT Pine—aparticularlyhardy
�dpt Dominic Addario species of wood. Its walls
and roof structure was de-
'I`rain station signed in a kit form so that
it could be "knocked down",
could be artifact then brought to a site by rail
and then reassembled.
If it isn't "mowed" by
Here in South Florida, either Tequesta or Jupiter
weather conditions are not and systematically disas-
very conducive for turn sembled, either town may
of the 20th century po- find itself with a valuable
tentially historic wooden resource.
buildings. A perfect place for its
Few have survived. reassembly and placement
Last Tuesday evening, is on Inlet Village public
the town manager of Ju- docking Property that an-
piter discussed the fate of other historic railway event
one of these structures at once passed right through.
the regular town meeting. The town has $400,000
The building in question worth of funds available
is known as the Jupiter De- with a recent matching
pot. It was one of a series of grant rewarded to it for
train depot stations ordered the final "improvements,"
to be designed in modular whose design includes a
manner by Henry Flagler pavilion on the site.
for his East Coast Railway The town has even ap-
which is now known as plied for this parcel to be
FEC. designated a "historic site."
The original structure With a genuine historic
was supposed to have been building, this would then
made out of Dade County make sense.