![]() Unlike the street-level masonry station houses built at 18th Street and points south, the 12th Street station appears to have been built with a mezzanine station house on the north side of 12th Street. In addition, as the tracks crossed 12th Street they curved several feet transitioning between being over the alley-like street Victoria Avenue (later renamed Holden Court) north of 12th to being on private property south of 12th.Īs a result of all of these site conditions, the 12th Street station seems to have differed in its design from the other stations on the original stretch of the South Side elevated. Because the "L" had to span the double-wide roadway that included a ramp ascending upwards, the track structure was built at a higher elevation here to provide sufficient clearance for viaduct incline. The 12th Street Viaduct incline, while a roadway for public use, was built by and located on private property owned by the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The south 50 feet, however, were an incline beginning at Wabash and ascending upward until meeting the elevated 12th Street Viaduct at State Street, jogging north at State to curve over the original street alignment, then bridging over the yard of railroad tracks between State and the Chicago River that approached Dearborn, LaSalle Street, and Grand Central stations to the north. The north half of the street, a width of 50 feet, was the original right-of-way and was a level road that connected Wabash and State. ![]() The Roosevelt station was an unusual one from the beginning, different from the others on the line, due to the particular site conditions were the elevated tracks cross Roosevelt Road, originally called 12th Street.īy the time the South Side elevated was built in the early 1890s, 12th Street had an unusual split configuration between between Wabash Avenue and State Street. Roosevelt was one of the original ten stations of Chicago'sįirst "L" line, the South Side Rapid Transit, between Congress and 39th Street. ![]() (Photo by Graham Garfield)Ī drawing of the 12th Street station, as seen looking east in 1892. ![]() A new viaduct-mounted CTA "identifier" provides clear remote identification of the station, as well as the transit services available there. The main station house is on the left, with a #12 Roosevelt articulated bus stopping in front, and the auxiliary entrance is on the right. The Roosevelt elevated station is seen looking east on November 22, 2012, with the burgeoning South Loop lakefront neighborhoods visible in the background. ![]()
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