June 1999

CC&O Office Building in Johnson City

One last look at the outside of the old CC&O office building. My photos from 1997 show the original entrance to this building, the north side, which is on the right-hand side of the structure. The part of this building that all matches is the east side of the original building. This side would have faced the CC&O furnace spur and the ET&WNC furnace spur and the Southern line going north. The side opposite this side is VERY plain and looks nothing like this side. Kind of strange. The small part on the right that doesn't match is the covered connector that covers the original front of the structure and covers old Centre Street and extends the building over to the manufacturing part of the business, which is Empire/Vaughn Manufacturing. I would have liked to have seen this before all the windows were bricked up. Looks like some very nice arched openings there.

If this makes any sense at all to anyone, I'll be amazed. Anyway, the brickwork is very nice, and this building has a lot of history in it. I arrived as everyone was going to lunch. At the rate they were leaving, I don't think many of them cared a whole lot about the history bit.