Hotel Lobby

ID: 2339 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: c. 1918

This file appears in: Vincennes Union Depot

This photograph shows the richly furnished lobby of the Union Depot Hotel. It would have been a very comfortable place to wait for your train.

This file appears in: Vincennes Union Depot

Vincennes Union Depot

By Knox County Public Library

You are now looking at what remains of a once grand structure that was one of the main hubs of activity in the city. In the early 1850s, with the persistence of people like Abner T. Ellis, the railroads arrived in Vincennes to the absolute delight…