NAYLOR, DAVID
Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America´s rapid growth and development. Linking these lines that crisscrossed the map were th stations themselves, the very centerpieces-physica and metaphorical- of civic and cultural life in america.
They were backdrops to commonplace comings and goings as well as public lecturers and evangelists, rallies and wartime troop movement; outposts of Western settlement; staging grounds for presidential whistle-stop tours; and destinations for a new class of torurits that arose at the turn of the twentieth century. Reflecting a vast trange os shapes, styles, and sizes, their architectural diversity defined them nearly as much as their hallowed place in American History.
