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P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot

goods station in Indianapolis, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ28124710 ↗
Source-derived summary

P. C. C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot, also known as the Central Union Warehouse, was a historic freight depot located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1916 by the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. It was a one-story, brick warehouse building measuring 790 feet long and 70 feet wide. It has been demolished.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and delisted in 1997.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot” as goods station in Indianapolis, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Railroad, Freight and Depot.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 1995, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Railroad, Freight and Depot providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot”, the useful work is to connect “goods station in Indianapolis, United States of America” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28124710. Authority coordinates are 39.760, -86.156. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1995 and 1997.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot primary sources, P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot archive and Railroad research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “P.C.C. & St. L. Railroad Freight Depot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.