Every time I look at the B&O railroad station, I get mad all over again at some of the work that was done in the name of restoration. If there was anything that I learned while serving 16 years on the Sykesville Historic District Commission, it was that proper restoration is also sensitive to changes or additions made to a building over it's long history. The "restoration" of the B&O station removed 3 chimneys, and cut a new entrance hole in the South wall similar to the 1830 building. The chimneys, as well as most of the multi-paned windows were not original to the 1830 structure, but were added about 1870. Thankfully, the windows were not changed.
Don't even get me started on that stockade fence.
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