Built in 1902 at the site of the
West Point Engine and Machine Company (later the
West Point Manufacturing Company),
the trolley car barn was 43 feet wide and 162 feet long. Near it was a power
house, 70 X 64 feet, both built of brick. (The powerhouse, now
gone, was located on Cottage Avenue.) 700,000 bricks came
from Edward Vaughan of the West Point Brick Yard. The company
gave the community the contracts for materials and labor, as far
as possible.
By 1912 the trolley had stopped running and the building was bought by
Harry M. Nase, owner of the general store.
Nase sold it to Enos Vaughan (son of Edward) in 1916. Vaughan had designs to turn it
into dwellings, and actually completed a few, but the venture
didn't seem to be successful. |