Luz Station is a major, 19th century, railway station in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The late Victorian building was manufactured in Great Britain and assemble in Brazil. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1895/07/17 | Charles Driver | Architect | A contract is made for a new Luz railway station in Sao Paulo for the Sao Paulo Railway in Brazil. English architect, Charles H Driver, will design the terminal. | |||
| 1898/00/00 | W MacFarlane and Co Ltd | Fabricators | Walter Macfarlane and Co, Glasgow, fabricate the metal structures for Luz Station. The building will be assembled in Glasgow, then disassembled and shipped to Sao Paulo, Brazil. | |||
| 1898/12/00 | Engineers, Daniel M Fox and Alexander Mac Kerrow perform the structural calculations for Luz Station. Their office is the former office of Sir James Brunlees at 12 Victoria Street (lost) in Westminster, London. | |||||
| 1900/00/00 | Hayward Brothers | Fabricators | English ironmongers, Hayward Ltd, London, fabricate metal parts for the building of Luz Station, Sao Paulo, Brazil. | |||
| 1900/00/00 | Round Oak Steelworks | Fabricators | The metal components are imported from Earl of Dudley's Round Oak Iron and Steel Works in Brierley Hill, United Kingdom. | |||
| 1900/00/00 | Frederick Braby and Co Ltd Engineers and Contractors, London, manufacture steel structural elements for Luz Station in Sao Paulo. | |||||
| 1901/02/00 | The works and the installation of all its facilities are completed at Luz Station, Sao Paulo. The bricks, nails, steel frame and tiles were imported from Great Britain. | |||||
| 1901/03/01 | The Luz Station opens in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The building is 157 meters long with a 52 meter tall central tower, and its clock, is almost 3 meters in diameter. | |||||
| 1919/00/00 | A crowd welcomes Ruy Barbosa, a Brazilian diplomat and founder of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, at Luz Station in Sao Paulo. | |||||
| 1919/00/00 | British ambassador Sir Ralph Paget arrives at Luz Station in Sao Paulo. | |||||
| 1946/00/00 | A fire, which lasted more than 7 hours, guts the east wing, the great central hall and the clock tower of Luz Station. The tower worked as a chimney which concentrated the fire inside, but prevented the west wing from being destroyed. |
| Particulars for Luz Station, Sao Paulo: | |
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| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Art Movement | Italian Renaissance Revival |
| Area of Significance | Railroad |
| Historic Use | Railroad Depot |
| Architectural Style | Second Empire |
| Area of Significance | Transportation |
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