National Register of Historic Places

Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot

Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
Listed
September 30, 2002
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
02000492

About this property

Great Overland Station, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot, is a museum and former railroad station in Topeka, Kansas, United States. The station was built from 1925 to 1927 and designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, whose firm designed over 20 Union Pacific Railroad stations from 1924 to 1931. The station's Neoclassical Revival design uses terra cotta extensively and features a center pavilion with two increasingly smaller pavilions on either side. Passenger service to the station began in January 1927; almost 20,000 people attended the station's grand opening, and the new station was considered "one of the largest and finest stations west of the Missouri River". In the later years of its train station life, it also hosted the passenger trains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island Lines). The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 'Santa Fe' had its trains stop at its own Topeka station.

Location

701 N. Kansas Ave.
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
39.06605, -95.66970

Categories

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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot listed on the National Register?

Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 2002.

What type of historic resource is Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot?

Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot is recorded as the civil_war era.

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