{"id":8145,"date":"2014-04-14T07:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2014-04-16T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T23:37:19","slug":"rochesters-grand-bragdon-railroad-station-returning-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2014\/04\/rochesters-grand-bragdon-railroad-station-returning-in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester’s Grand Bragdon Railroad Station: Returning Soon in 3D!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe following is a guest post submitted by Emily Morry, PhD, Historical Researcher<\/a>. Submit your story today<\/a>.<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

The last remnants of Rochester\u2019s third New York Central Railroad Station, designed by noted architect Claude Bragdon, were demolished almost forty years ago. Now a team of researchers at the University of Rochester is seeking assistance from the local community to help restore the station\u2019s memory…<\/p>\n

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\nThe Claude Bragdon Digital Humanities Project, led by university professors, A. Joan Saab and Joan Shelley Rubin, is developing a website that will feature an interactive 3D model of Bragdon\u2019s train station. Drawing on station plans, photographs and artifacts like the tile work pictured above, the project\u2019s programmer, Joshua Romph, is rebuilding the intricate structure piece by piece to create a station replica that website visitors will be able to virtually walk through. <\/p>\n

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\nThe idea, according to U of R history professor, Joan Rubin, is to not only showcase the station\u2019s impressive architecture, but also to \u201crecreate an experience.\u201d To achieve this feat, the project will supplement the 3D model with written and audio materials. The site will elucidate individual parts of the station (the benches, the ceiling etc\u2026) using Bragdon\u2019s own writings (culled from the Bragdon Family Papers of the university\u2019s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections) and assessments by contemporary scholars. <\/p>\n

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\nThe project also hopes to flesh out the train station experience with the recollections of local Rochesterians. If you or someone you know has memories or mementos of the train station (photographs or other salvaged items) and would be interested in sharing them to help to recreate an important part of Rochester\u2019s history, please contact the Claude Bragdon Digital Humanities Project at:
\nBragdon.UR@gmail.com<\/a>
\n– or –
\n(585) 275-4287.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is a guest post submitted by Emily Morry, PhD, Historical Researcher. Submit your story today. The last remnants of Rochester\u2019s third New York Central Railroad Station, designed by noted architect Claude Bragdon, were demolished almost forty years ago. Now a team of researchers at the University of Rochester is seeking assistance from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1573,1293,15,114,311,3],"tags":[2561,610,609,619,2560,2562,607,928,700,167,381],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester-art-culture","category-reader-submitted-stories","category-rochester_history","category-rochester_news","category-trainrailroad-stuff","category-mass_transit_infrastructure","tag-a-joan-saab","tag-amtrak-station","tag-bragdon-station","tag-claude-bragdon","tag-claude-bragdon-digital-humanities-project","tag-joan-shelley-rubin","tag-new-york-central-railroad","tag-railroad-station","tag-rochester-amtrak-station","tag-university-of-rochester","tag-uofr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}