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		S E R I E S Arena District at night Columbus, Ohio November 2003 Union Station Arch Streets and sights A E S Q U E ARCHIVES L I N K S AAA Abulafia Boardwalk Bread CHN Christ Lutheran Church Neighborhood Research Institute Old Oaks Olde Towne Polyphony INTP Business First Business First Daily Edition Call and Post Columbus Alive Columbus Dispatch Columbus Free Press Columbus Post Communicator News The Daily Reporter Inner Art The Lantern The Other Paper Suburban News Publications Short North Gazette NBC4 Columbus WSYX 6 10TV WBNS ONN BBC World Service CNN Christian Science Monitor The Guardian IndiaTimes Newsday New York Times StarTribune Washington Post Washington Times AfricaPundit William F. Buckley Jr. Command Post Crooked Timber Daniel W. Drezner John Ellis David Frum Hit & Run Instapundit Mickey Kaus Joshua Micah Marshall The Note OxBlog Virginia Postrel Wes Pruden Jim Romenesko Andrew Sullivan Volokh Conspiracy Day by Day Doonesbury Ted Rall Peter Steiner Tom Toles Tom Tommorow Rob Pegoraro Matt Drudge Cronaca Languagehat Language Log Open Brackets PaleoJudaica Candid Colors Communication Arts Conscientious Ecotone Wiki Smoky Mountain Journal Acme Art Company Ballet Met CCAD Columbus Arts Columbus Arts Festival Columbus Metropolitan Library Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Symphony Dialogue Franklin Park Conservatory Glass Axis Music in the Air Opera Columbus Thurber House Wexner Center City of Bexley City of Columbus Columbus City Council Columbus Police Columbus Public Schools OTENA egroup OTENA-NIC egroup OTENA-tours egroup OTENA-trustees egroup Old Oaks egroup Ohio Parsons Blockwatch egroup				This arch is what remains of Columbus' Union Station, which stood from 1897 until it was demolished in 1976. As the demolition of New York City's historic Penn Station was instrumental in awakening a preservation movement in that city, so did the sudden demolition of North High Street's historic neo-Roman train station galvanize activists in Columbus over a decade later. Columbus Landmarks was formed after the city resorted to a sneak middle-of-the-night demolition to thwart vocal preservationists who were unable to roust a judge to get a restraining order. The remaining arch was displaced by further urban renewal and moved to its present location in the new Arena District in 2000. InnerArtBits On October 22, 1976, the Battelle Commons Company razed the historic Union Station arcade during the night to make way for the convention center. On February 10, 1977, Mike Curtin reported in the Columbus Dispatch that: "Razing the historic Union Station arcade cost Columbus millions of federal dollars for the planned $80 million convention center." Specifically, the federal Urban Mass Transit Administration (UMTA) "…notified Mayor Tom Moody that the city's request for $6.2 million for a transportation complex at the convention center had been turned down." Alive Photographs of Union Stations past Other reminders of Union Station include a mural on the walls of the Union Station Café in the Short North, the echoing of the lines of the arches in the new I-670 cap just north of where the station once stood, and the convention center which now sits on the very site of the depot. The convention center, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, plays on the winding curves of the railroad yard rather than a remembrance of the station itself. Today, no passenger trains stop in Columbus, the 15th largest city in the United States.

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