Caliente Railroad Depot
National Register of Historic Places

Caliente Railroad Depot

Caliente, Lincoln County, Nevada
Listed
March 5, 1974
Type
Building
Period
Colonial
Ref No.
74001146

About this property

Caliente station is a historic Mission Revival style railway station, located in Caliente, Nevada, United States. The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Caliente Railroad Depot, and is Nevada Historical Marker number 249. The station was built by the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (later the Union Pacific Railroad) in 1923 to serve the railroad's division point on the mainline between Los Angeles, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The depot is a two-story wood frame stucco building. The first floor held the passenger waiting room, station agent's office and other railroad offices. The second floor was used as a hotel. The division point at Caliente served as a maintenance facility and was a base for helper locomotives. In the 1950s, as diesel locomotives replaced steam, the railroad no longer needed to use the Caliente site. Maintenance of the locomotives was moved to Las Vegas in 1948. Until 1997, the station saw service on Amtrak's Desert Wind. In 1970, the building was turned over to the city of Caliente. In order to preserve the depot structure, the city moved its municipal services into the building. The station is now the Caliente city hall, library, and art gallery. National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Nevada Media related to Caliente (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons

Location

100 Depot Ave.
Caliente, Lincoln County, Nevada
37.61246, -114.51499

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When was Caliente Railroad Depot listed on the National Register?

Caliente Railroad Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1974.

What type of historic resource is Caliente Railroad Depot?

Caliente Railroad Depot is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Caliente Railroad Depot is recorded as the colonial era.

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