The Historic Seaboard Trainstation Center for Clay

The Historic Seaboard Trainstation is a former freight railway station in St. Petersburg, Florida, which has been designated by the city of St. Petersburg as a local landmark. Quoting from Wikipedia (
, «The station was constructed in 1926 by the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad Company, the second railway line to enter St. Petersburg. The office building and warehouse are built of brick in masonry vernacular style and are the city’s only substantially unaltered example of railroad architecture.[3] The line and building came to be owned by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL), and the building continued in use as a freight depot for that company until 1967.[4] In that year, SAL merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), forming the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and the depot was closed.»
It is now the home to the St. Petersburg Clay Company (
), the Morean Center for Clay (
), Highwater Clays (
), and the CA CAfe (
),. The Morean was the reason for out visit, but there was Oh so much more to see and it’s pretty cool to know that the 36,000+ square feet if space is being put to good use.
I enjoyed visiting the various shops, though I did not discover the existence of the café until after leaving the trainstation (which is too bad, as the menu looks quite yummy).
The trainstation grounds are also interesting as this is where the HUGE kilns are (including the legendary Anagama kiln built by master potter Don Reitz). There are also bits of random pottery projects placed around the grounds, so it really does make for an interesting scene.
Whether you are here for the clay or the café, it is a pretty cool historic place to visit.