Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot and Division Office
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Whitefish station is a stop on Amtrak's Empire Builder in Whitefish, Montana. In addition to the Empire Builder, a once-daily Greyhound Lines bus service also links the station to Kalispell and Missoula. A car rental agency operates a window within the station. The station and parking lot are owned by the Stumptown Historical Society. BNSF Railway leases office space on the upper floors of the station and owns the platform and track. The Tudor Revival station building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and is known therein as the Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot and Division Office or as the Whitefish Depot. Of the 12 Montana stations served by Amtrak, Whitefish is by far the busiest, boarding or detraining an average of about 170 passengers daily. Whitefish typically handles more than four times as many passengers as the next-busiest Montana station, which varies from year to year between East Glacier Park, Havre, and Shelby. It is the busiest station stop between the Pacific Ocean and St. Paul Union Depot on the Empire Builder route. As of 2012, the Empire Builder stops at the station for 20 minutes. Whitefish marks the western end of the BNSF's Hi Line Subdivision and the eastern end of the Kootenai River Subdivision.
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When was Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot and Division Office listed on the National Register?
Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot and Division Office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 2002.
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Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot and Division Office is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot and Division Office is recorded as the industrial era.
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