Adair Sheltershed History

The Adair name came from the family of Robert E. Adair. At this stop, the railroad had a passenger platform as well as a milk platform used to load milk cans into box cars.

Bill Logan photo. Ella Adair with Adair Sheltershed in the background in 1929.

After the railroad was removed in 1932, the building was relocated west of SR26 int he back yard of the first Paine Residence. This is where it sat for 50 years functioning as a storage shed, chicken coop, and a basketball backboard.

Through all of these uses, it was altered from original form with windows, addition of battens, and the opening had a door installed. Sometime before 1985, a windstorm blew a tree over and damaged the shed. Herman and his son, Charles, rebuilt the shed with original and new lumber and relocated it to the current day location.

Bill Logan photo of Herman Paine with Adair Sheltershed before the 1985 rebuild (left) and a photo shared by D. Norris and D. Adair on the OR&W Facebook Page notice the basketball hoop.(right)

See the Google Map Image below from Bill Logan to see original location of the sheltershed and the relation to the OR&W Mainline.

Bill Logan Google Image.

Adair Sheltershed Rehab

In the summer of 2025, the Friends of the Ohio River and Western Historical Society took on the project of rehabbing the Adair Sheltershed.

July 12, 2025 - Work Day #1

Volunteers showed up early to get started on the rehab on the Adair Sheltershed. Today's goal was to clean the structure of growth, remove the signs, paint, and begin the roofing.

Here is what we showed up to that morning. Ivy had begun to take over the building and the previous roll roofing was gone allowing water to enter the structure.

After the ivy was cleared, we removed the signs. New ones would be frabricated, so these ones, thought to be original, will be stored used in a future display.

Then the real work began. Volunteers began scraping and painting the structure while others removed a few hundred nails from the roof. A new subroof was addedin preparation for the new roll roofing.

After one day of work, the sheltershed has a new coat of paint of ochre and chocolate brown (railroad standard) and the first part of the rolled roofing system has been applied.

August 1, 2025 - Work Day #2

Volunteers finished installing the roll roofing and hanging the sign.

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