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| Keywords: Overlooking what what were once bustling rail lines of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Grafton, West Virginia, which was an early B&O hub LCCN2015631663.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes To the right are the Willard Hotel built in 1911 by the B O and the old B O terminal Rail traffic increased as the B O expanded reaching 30 passenger trains a day by the 1920s Named in honor of B O President Daniel Willard the Willard no connection to the famous Willard Hotel in Washington D C was built by Grafton attorney and industrialist John T McGraw The contractor for both buildings was J Walsh Son of Baltimore and the same granite and brick were used on both buildings The six-and-a-half-story hotel is Second Empire in style with a mansard roof cut stone trim and brick corbeled quoins The Willard was a thoroughly modern hotel for its time with all the amenities and had one of the finest ballrooms in the area The closed station is now the Grafton B O Railroading Heritage Center ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015631663 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/31500/31588a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 31588 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 31588 39 20 3824 0 N 80 1 0129 0 W alt 304_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||