The Storehouse Project

The Storehouse is a fine piece of Victorian industrial architecture erected e 1889-92 as an "Offices and Stores" building. It housed offices and parts storage for the construction and repair of railway engines and cars. It was crafted of brick and stone in a rebuilding of the railyards by supervisor James Meehan following a fire of 1887. The building's round-arched windows admitted light above long rows of shelves for storing railway parts. The Storehouse is the only historic building remaining in Ludlow from the 19th-century construction of the Cincinnati Southern and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroads.

The Storehouse has long been abandoned and the museum has stepped forward to save it. Rehabilitating the Railyard Storehouse for the Ludlow Heritage Museum is the highest and best use for this important structure. It will provide the museum with fine facilities and open this great building for Ludlow and for visitors from the region and the nation.