Terminal Station Choo Choo Dome &
Shavin Residence Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Historic Preservation of the Terminal Station Choo Choo Dome
Terminal Station, affectionately known as the “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, was built in 1909. It is Beaux Arts masterpiece designed by Donn Barber and modeled after his National Park Bank in New York. Its central dome and former passenger lobby area is arguably the most iconic space in Chattanooga. Learn about the station’s history, hear about plans for its future, and take a behind-the-scenes tour of spaces rarely seen by the public. You will have the opportunity to climb to the very top of the dome and see it from above (but you’ll need to do a little climbing over the original Carnegie steel beams).
Shavin Residence
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Completed in 1952, the Seamour and Gerte Shavin House is the only building in Tennessee designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As an example of Wright’s Usonian houses the residence is remarkable for its use of local materials and the unique site layout atop Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, TN. It is also one of the few houses still owned by the original owner’s family. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 as significant in the area of architecture.
