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Everett Street Depot (Milwaukee Union Station) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Everett Street Depot on an old postcard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | West Everett Street between N. 2nd and N. 4th Streets Milwaukee, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Everett Street Station, also called Milwaukee Union Station, was a railway station located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), commonly known as the Milwaukee Road. The station was located on West Everett Street between North 2nd Street and North 4th Street, and it featured a 140-foot-high clock tower—the largest in America at the time of construction. Designed by E. Townsend Mix in a "modern" functional style, the station combined the Gothic Revival style with elements drawing on Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles (such as stone archways) in an eclectic blend. Walter G. Berg gave a detailed description of the building in Buildings and Structures of American Railroads (1893).[1]
The station faced the Fourth Ward Park (since renamed Zeidler Park), which afforded both a vantage point for viewing the station and a bucolic respite from the mechanized industrial culture of the railroad. The station served passengers from its opening in 1886 until it was replaced by Union Station (now Milwaukee Intermodal Station) on August 4, 1965. The station was damaged by fire a week after closing and razed the following year.[2]
- ^ Berg, Walter Gilman (1893). Buildings and Structures of American Railroads. A Reference Book for Railroad Managers, Superintendents, Master Mechanics, Engineers, Architects, and Students. J. Wiley. p. 371. ISBN 9780598757371.
- ^ Holland, Kevin J. (2001). Classic American Railroad Terminals. Osceola, WI: MBI. p. 58. ISBN 9780760308325. OCLC 45908903.