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| Location | 701 N. Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas |
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| Coordinates | 39°3′58″N 95°40′10″W / 39.06611°N 95.66944°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1925–1927 |
| Architect | Underwood, Gilbert Stanley |
| MPS | Railroad Resources of Kansas MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 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, 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 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] 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.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot". National Park Service. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
- ^ Official Guide of the Railways December 1951, Index of Railroad Stations