Location: Detroit, MI - PM Freight House (3rd Street and Congress)

The Pere Marquette and its predecessors built a new freight house in 1893 in downtown Detroit, near the Fort Street Union Station.

Notes

The first building was completed in 1892 with seven house tracks, capacity of 89 cars. [PM45]

Time Line

1893. The new freight house to be occupied jointly by the Detroit, Lansing & Northern and Flint & Pere Marquette roads, at the corner of Third and Congress streets, near the Fort Street Union Depot, will be ready for use in a few days and is expected to be the most convenient building of the kind in Michigan. Teams with freight for shipment will enter the lower part of the building and deliver their loads on elevators, which will land the freight on the floor above, which is on level with the tracks. Here it will be assorted and loaded on the proper cars, without causing any delay to the teams. There are three parallel tracks beside the warehouse where the cars will stand so as to have their doors opposite each other, making a straight road by which freight may be wheeled through two cars into the one on the third track. It is expected by this arrangement to so facilitate the handling of freight that shippers will not be subjected to half the present delay in delivering and receiving their merchandise. The new building also contains handsome and convenient offices for the clerks in the freight departments of both roads. [DFP-1893-0604]