DATE: Saturday, April 12, 1997              TAG: 9704120320

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: ALBEMARLE                         LENGTH:   26 lines

ALBEMARLE DEPOT RESTORATION PLAN INCLUDES A NEW ADDRESS

Albemarle's 87-year-old railway station has been moved 140 yards to a new foundation in the first step of a months-long preservation process.

The wood-frame Albemarle depot greeted passengers until 1933 and accepted freight on the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway into the 1970s before it was boarded up as a storage building for the railroad.

The wood-frame building was moved to a spot on West Main Street near the busy intersection of U.S. 52 and N.C. 73. Workers placed the building on its foundation Friday.

Volunteers will have to scrape peeling paint, replace a broken window and make other repairs to a building that's essentially sound, said Vicki Coggins, executive director of the Albemarle Downtown Development Corp.

The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources provided an $80,000 grant to start the Market Station project. The project includes the restored depot as a community meeting place and a new open-air building for the Stanly County Farmers Market.

The total restoration costs are unknown at this time.

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