Ada, OK depot. Currently serving as local Chamber of Commerce office. West side of depot. Ada, OK, MP 548.2 is on the Sherman Subdivision. Photograph dated 6/4/2002.
Ada, OK Please see the following links for trackside views of the Ada, OK depot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/asherok/2772856552/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/asherok/2772857336/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/asherok/2772858264/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/4347511370/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/asherok/2772855596/sizes/l/ (west end) http://www.flickr.com/photos/asherok/2772006403/sizes/l/ (street side view) http://www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/4346764641/sizes/l/ (bay details) http://www.flickr.com/photos/asherok/2776860292/sizes/l/ (artist concept circa 1920s) The depot's agent / operators bay faces northwest. Railroad west is to the right in the trackside views. The depot was constructed in 1913. The depot address is 300 West Main Street. The building has been occupied since 1968 by the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
Ada, OK Even though I was brought up in Eastern Oklahoma. I had never seen the Ada depot. Just how much passenger business did they have? Seems like I remember hearing that a couple of passenger trains went through Holdenville, OK but only at night.
Throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and even New Mexico, Louis Curtiss left his architectural mark on depots and other buildings of the Frisco and Santa Fe. The Frisco depot at Ada OK is one that survives.
A 1912 newspaper article about the construction of the Victoria TX depot of similar design indicates concrete construction. I'm guessing set forms were used to mold the designs into the concrete.
