Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Passenger Terminal

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caption = The Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Passenger Terminal in 2007.
location= Mobile, Alabama
lat_degrees = 30
lat_minutes = 42
lat_seconds = 1
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 88
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 44
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1907
architect= Marye, P. Thorton
architecture= Mission/Spanish Revival
added = August 15, 1975
governing_body = Private
refnum=75000323cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Passenger Terminal is a historic train station in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Architect P. Thorton Mayre designed the Mission Revival style terminal for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. It was completed in 1907 at a total cost of $575,000. The Mobile and Ohio merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad in 1940 to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Passenger service was discontinued by the late 1950s, and the building served as railroad offices.cite web |url=http://preservationscoreboard.uwa.edu/win/mobileohio.htm |title=Wins: The Old Gulf Mobile and Ohio Building |accessdate=2008-07-29 |work=Alabama's Preservation Scorecard |publisher=Alabama Historical Commission ] The terminal was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1975. It had suffered neglect, extensive interior alteration, and partial removal of the train shed by this time. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad vacated the building in 1986 and for fifteen years it suffered from demolition-by-neglect. In 2001 the City of Mobile and a private company invested more than $18 million to restore the local landmark with the developer taking advantage of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive program. Today the building houses private offices and the city's Metro Transit Authority.

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Mobile County, Alabama

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