Old Mankato Railroad Station

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Old Mankato Railroad Station

• By Ryan Carlson
• Adam Otto

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What is Architecture?

• The art or science of building, specifically the
  art or practice of designing in building
  structures especially habitable ones.

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Adaptive Reuse

• A process that adapts buildings for new uses
  while retaining their historic features.
• Adaptive reuse was used in the Old Mankato
  Railroad station.

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New Station

• The reused station has been turned into
• US Bank Corp
• Chamber Of Commerce
• Convention Bureau
• Reitan Law Office

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Interior of New Station

• The first floor of the New Station is the US
  Bankcorps offices.
• The stairs that lead up to the second floor go to
  the Chamber of Commerce offices.
• The Reitan Law Office is located in the old
  baggage area. Which is on the south side of the
  station.

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First Floor of Old Station

• Men's waiting room at the South end.
• Womens waiting room on the North end.
• Between the two was a ticket office that was on
  the river side of the building.
• The opposite side of the ticket office are two
  waiting rooms that have toilets in each.

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Second Floor of Old Station

• There are stairs that lead to a hall that brings
  you to the doors of offices.
• At the North End was the Superintendents office.
• Clerks room
• Train Dispatchers room
• At the south end there was a office for the road
  masters office.

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Baggage Building

• One Story High
• This building contained a boiler room at the
  North End
• The baggage area took most of the space up.
• This building also contained side entrances on
  each side.

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Exterior

• This shows the exterior texture of the new station

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Exterior of Building

• Lower eight feet and four inches of both
  buildings made of stone, this brings the stone
  walls all the way up to the window sills.
• Above the stone walls is brick with stone
  trimming.
• The roof is steep.
• Height of building approx. 30 ft.

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Unique Designs

• Half timbered construction
• -building has exposed wood trimming with plaster
  brick or stone filled in between them
• -a design used in medieval times

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Unique Designs cont.

• Oriel Windows
• -window that projects from wall
• -located on the river side of the building

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Unique designs cont.

• Dormer
• -window that is set vertically on a sloping roof
• -contains its own roof
• -located on backside of building

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Summary

• The old Mankato railroad station used adaptive
  reuse and turned into the new depot station, the
  old architectural designs were transformed into
  newer ones but the concept and style of the
  building itself remained the same.

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Work Cited

• Mankato historical society
• http//architecture-about.com
• Chamber of Commerce

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• Questions??

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• The End