R.Moss
200 East Patrick Street
Going by many names, 200 East Patrick Street was built as the Terminal for trolley service on the Frederick and Middletown (Later Hagerstown and Frederick) Railway. When the Railway closed, the building remained the main offices of child company Potomac Edison Power Company. Years later it found itself the headquarters of the News Post (Frederick News Post), recieving an addition off the back to house printing and distribution facilities.
Though many today call it the "Frederick News Post Building", The "FNP" constructed a larger modern facility elsewhere in the area, vacating this building in 2008. The old terminal sits empty waiting for an interested party to come gut it and turn it in to office suites or condos, or torn down like many other vacant buildings in the area are to be replaced with larger modern structures. It is this photographer's opinion however that it should be preserved and converted to a much needed Frederick County Museum of Transportation and Industry.
This photograph mimics the 1911 post-construction photograph of the building, which shows an electric streetcar entering the side of the structure itself.
200 East Patrick Street
Going by many names, 200 East Patrick Street was built as the Terminal for trolley service on the Frederick and Middletown (Later Hagerstown and Frederick) Railway. When the Railway closed, the building remained the main offices of child company Potomac Edison Power Company. Years later it found itself the headquarters of the News Post (Frederick News Post), recieving an addition off the back to house printing and distribution facilities.
Though many today call it the "Frederick News Post Building", The "FNP" constructed a larger modern facility elsewhere in the area, vacating this building in 2008. The old terminal sits empty waiting for an interested party to come gut it and turn it in to office suites or condos, or torn down like many other vacant buildings in the area are to be replaced with larger modern structures. It is this photographer's opinion however that it should be preserved and converted to a much needed Frederick County Museum of Transportation and Industry.
This photograph mimics the 1911 post-construction photograph of the building, which shows an electric streetcar entering the side of the structure itself.