Abstract
In 1890 or thereabouts, a young man stepped off the train at the brand-new Charleroi Station looking for opportunity. Robert L. Barnhart, 27 years old, had come from Missouri by way of New York. Possessed of restless energy, a creative mind and skilled at engineering and design Barnhart became Charleroi’s first professional architect.
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