freight house

a depot or storage place for freight.

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What does “clement” mean?

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Finally, one rainy morning I secured work at a freight-house.
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements|Various
Hearing the fire-alarm and looking out, he was astounded to see that it was the freight-house burning.
Dynamite Stories|Hudson Maxim
The framing was done south of the line of the trestle and west of the freight-house.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910|George C. Clarke
I've got to go down anyway and check over some stuff for us at the freight-house so it might as well be now.
El Diablo|Brayton Norton

The Captain had moored Daniel to a picket in the fence over by the freight-house.
Cap'n Eri|Joseph Crosby Lincoln