Great Overland Station


Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	701 N. Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas
Coordinates	39°3′58″N 95°40′10″W / 39.06611°N 95.66944°W / 39.06611; -95.66944Coordinates: 39°3′58″N 95°40′10″W / 39.06611°N 95.66944°W / 39.06611; -95.66944
Area	less than one acre
Built	1925-27
Architect	Underwood, Gilbert Stanley
MPS	Railroad Resources of Kansas MPS
NRHP Reference #	02000492^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 1, 2002

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. The station was built from 1925 to 27 and designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, whose firm designed over 20 Union Pacific Railroad stations from 1924 to 1931. The station's Free Classical 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".^[2]

Passenger totals at the station declined through the 1950s and 1960s, and the last regular passenger service to the station ended in 1971. The Union Pacific Railroad repurposed the station as office space and a customer service center before abandoning the building in 1989. In 1992, a fire damaged the western part of the station; the same year, the group Railroad Heritage, Inc. (then known as Topeka Railroad Days, Inc.) agreed to consider renovating the station. The station was extensively rehabilitated from 2000 to 2002 and is now a railroad heritage museum.^[2]

The Great Overland Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 2002.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 8, 2013.

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