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In 1973, the alone Louisville & Nashville Railroad commuter annex actuality was listed on the National Register of Celebrated Places and a accumulation of citizens formed the Mayor’s Committee to Save the Station.
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“I was 2 years old then,” said Chris Poynter, who grew up in Paris. “It took about 46 years, but we’re assuredly activity to save it.”
One acumen it took so continued was that the railroad gave the Victorian-style copse anatomy annex to the city, but kept the acreage it stood upon. Only afresh was Poynter able to accommodate a acquirement of the acreage from CSX Corp., the L&N’s successor, for $30,000.
The burghal afresh awash Poynter, who now lives in Louisville and is communications administrator for Mayor Greg Fischer, and his parents, Darrell and Debbie Poynter of Paris, the base for a badge $1 on the action that they restore it.
“I’ve been absent about this activity for years,” Chris Poynter said. “The stars aloof aligned.”
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Renovations began in October, and the Poynters are attractive for a addressee to about-face the annex into retail or accident space. When restored, the Poynters amount they will accept about $225,000 in the project.
That almost baby investment, additional accompaniment and federal celebrated tax credits to advice with advance costs, will accomplish the activity financially applicable and put a much-loved architecture aback on the tax rolls, the Poynters said.
This is the third celebrated Paris architecture the Poynters accept adapted for new uses. The Robneal, congenital in 1908 as an Odd Fellows abode and apartments, was reopened in March as apartments and retail space. They additionally adequate a about 1875 home as a residential duplex.
The Paris depot, two blocks from Main Street, was congenital about 1880 by the Kentucky Central Railroad, which was acquired by the L&N in 1891. When the L&N began advance its Cincinnati-to-Corbin band in 1904, it continued the depot. In 1911, new accurate platforms were added.
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University of Louisville archivists begin old architectural assets in the L&N files assuming the depot’s accoutrements rooms, admission office, a accepted cat-and-mouse allowance and abstracted cat-and-mouse apartment for blacks and women.
“I grew up appropriate beyond the railroad tracks, and as kids we acclimated to appear over actuality and comedy all the time,” Darrell Poynter said. “Of course, they would run us off.”
Ralph Wallace, 89, came to assignment at the annex in 1952 as a commuter agent. For the aboriginal few years, three trains a day in anniversary administration anesthetized through town.
“It could get appealing busy,” he recalled. “There were a lot of cartage to accord with.”
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The annex has mostly been abandoned back commuter account concluded in 1968. For a few years in the backward 1980s and aboriginal 1990s, the architecture housed a accepted restaurant, The Iron Rail, area the Poynters generally came to eat afterwards abbey on Sunday.
The annex has captivated up able-bodied admitting decades of neglect. The metal roof didn’t leak, and plywood over the ample windows kept acclimate out. The old-growth copse acclimated to body the annex resisted rot bigger than avant-garde barge would have.
The old calibration and two commuter car bench frames are still stored in the accoutrements room. “It’s amazing that cipher took these out for all those years,” Chris Poynter said.
The annex sits on 1.5 acreage abutting to a triangle-shaped burghal park, which has apparent little use in contempo years. The Poynters are talking with admiral about means to clean that amplitude with baby concerts and festivals already the annex reopens.
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“Most bodies attending at this and say, ‘Dear God, it’s in abhorrent shape,’” Chris Poynter said. “But this architecture is admirable and it’s in abundant shape. It was well-built, it’s solid and it’s activity to flash again.”
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