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Continente: América

País: Estados Unidos

Localización: Denver

Año: 1894

Estado: Terminado

Descripción:Purely on aesthetics Denver Union Station is one of the most appealing and interesting railroad stations in the country. While part of this is due to the structure's beautiful Beaux-Arts, Neoclassical design the other is the station's impressive and distinctive arched neon-lit sign, Union Station, Travel by Train. During the heyday of rail travel in this country the terminal played host to many of the West's most famous streamliners and witnessed thousands of passengers parading through its halls daily. Thankfully, Denver Union Station has had quite a happy and productive life (unlike some of its other counterparts across the country) and has been in continual use since it opened in 1914. Even more importantly for the structure's future is that the City of Denver has included the station as part of its major commuter rail project throughout the city, so expect the building to remain a centerpiece for years to come.

The station that is so well known today is not actually the original, which was partially destroyed by fire, although interestingly today's building was partially constructed from the rubble of the original. The first terminal to occupy the structure dated back to its opening on June 1, 1881. This was also Denver's first union station as before this time four different smaller buildings were located around the city owned by each of its railroad; the Union Pacific, Colorado Central Railroad (later the Colorado & Southern, which itself became part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy), Denver & Rio Grande (later the Denver & Rio Grande Western), and the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad (another future subsidiary of the C&S).

It was UP who proposed streamlining their operations within one terminal, which was to be located just south of downtown Denver along 17th and Wynkoop Streets along the eastern bank of the South Platte River. The original union station had cost $525,000 to construct, quite a sum for that time. The first terminal was quite beautiful featuring a central clock tower with two massive wings in each direction stretching nearly a football field in length each. Sadly, this original structure was partially destroyed by fire just 13 years after opening, on March 18, 1894. The cause of the fire was faulty electrical wiring, which was not uncommon in those times.

With the central waiting room area heavily damaged and clock tower destroyed the second reconstructed terminal was designed by Van Brunt & Howe of Kansas City. The rebuilt terminal opened later that same year in 1894, thanks to the work of architect firm Van Brunt & Howe (also of Kansas City). They gave the new design a much lower profile but kept the same overall dimensions (width, and height of two stories) as the previous, and rebuilt the clock tower, which was a bit taller than the previous. The new terminal was designed in the Romanesque style giving it a look of Medieval Europe and somewhat resembling a classic castle.

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Union Station is Denver, Colorado, USA's historic train station at 17th and Wynkoop in the LoDo district. The station first opened in 1881.[3]

History

Denver's first train station was constructed in 1868 to serve the new Denver Pacific Railway, which connected Denver to the main transcontinental line at Cheyenne, Wyoming. By 1875, there were four different railroad stations, making passenger transfers between different railroad lines inconvenient. To remedy this issue, the Union Pacific Railroad proposed creating one central "Union Station" to combine the various operations. In February 1880, the owners of the four lines (the Union Pacific, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Denver, South Park & Pacific, and the Colorado Central) agreed to build a station at 17th and Wynkoop Streets. Architect A. Taylor of Kansas City was hired to develop the plans, and the station opened in May 1881.[4]

A fire in 1894 destroyed the central portion of the 1881 depot. The Kansas City architectural firm of Van Brunt & Howe was hired to design a larger replacement depot in the Romanesque style. Both the 1881 and 1894 depots included a tall central clock tower with four clock faces.[5]

In 1912, the original Union Depot partnership was dissolved and replaced by the Denver Terminal Railway Company, representing the then-major operators of the station (the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific, the Colorado & Southern, the Union Pacific, and the Denver & Rio Grande Westen). The new partnership decided to demolish and rebuild the central portion of the station to handle the increasing passenger traffic. The new central portion, designed by Denver architects Gove & Walsh, was built in the Beaux-Arts style and opened in 1914.[6]

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