Division Office Roanoke

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I was able to find a few drawings of interest related to Park Street and
the Division office in the archives.

This drawing is dated 3/21/1888. The Office building apparently had
additions over time (the photo from Jimmy shows additions on both the left
and right sides).
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=103314

There is also an article "Fire Destroys Park Street Office" in the March
1934 N&W Magazine.
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=61458

After some searching I found a drawing showing the location of the building:
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=199845

[image: image.png]

>From what I can tell from online maps, the Park Street Bridge became 5th
Street?

- Roger Link



On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 9:48 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

>     For those of you that didn't read Abe Burnett's post Sunday: "Roanoke
> - Cloverdale:  Control from UD, Park St, Roanoke, 1929", that same morning
> I came across a photo on Facebook. Looking at the photo I thought what a
> nice looking building it was an where exactly could it have been located?
> The only place that seemed to fit was Park St. However, there was nothing
> provided with the photo to explain where or when.
>     Then, I came across Abe's post which I include in part below.
>
> *On 2/28/2021 1:47 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:*
>
> * The attached article states that the Shenandoah **Div Train Dispatcher
> was at that time located at Park Street, Roanoke.  This is correct.  The
> Park Street office was located  on the north side of the R/W, immediately
> east of the Park Street O.H. Bridge, and immediately west of a location
> known (until the late 1950s) as Huff Mill.  The Park Street office building
> burned on March 1, 1934.*
>
> *The building was a very large two-story frame office building and housed
> the offices of both the Radford and Shenandoah Divisions, including
> Superintendents, staff and Train Dispatchers.  I know the Shenandoah
> Division Train Dispatcher (called "UD") was on the second floor, and I
> think think the Radford Division  Train Dispatcher (called "R" office, and
> "KD" message office as well) were also on the second floor.  The article in
> the Roanoke newspaper the following day describes which entities occupied
> which portions of the building.  After the fire, UD Office was moved to the
> freight station and R and KD were moved to the General Office Building.*
>
> *The N&W photo archives held a beautiful print of this structure, probably
> from the Valuation era, which was lettered "Division Office, Roanoke."  My
> wild theory is that this building was built at the time the Shenandoah
> Division offices were moved out of the SV/N&W "Union Depot" at Roanoke, and
> at the time Radford Division office were moved from Central Depot (East
> Radford) to Roanoke.  But I do not have dates for any of these events.*
>
> *-- abram burnett*
>
>  Now the photo:
>
>     Now Mr. Harvey, you know the rest of the story!
> Thank you Abe!
>
> Jimmy Lisle
>
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