freight house

a depot or storage place for freight.

Origin of freight house

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