- Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot
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For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee Road Depot (disambiguation).Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot
Location: 400 S. Washington St.
Green Bay, WisconsinCoordinates: 44°30′37″N 88°01′08″W / 44.51028°N 88.01889°WCoordinates: 44°30′37″N 88°01′08″W / 44.51028°N 88.01889°W Built: 1898 Architect: Charles S. Frost Architectural style: Flemish Renaissance Revival Governing body: Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce NRHP Reference#: 96000906 Added to NRHP: August 16, 1996 The Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot in Green Bay, Wisconsin was built in 1898 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as The Milwaukee Road) to serve the businesses and residences in Green Bay on the east bank of the Fox River. Two other depots from competing railroads were built on the west bank.
The depot was built primarily of brick and stone in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style by Charles Sumner Frost of Chicago, Illinois. The architecture is unusual in that most depots of that time were built in the Craftsman or Romanesque styles. The depot is a rectangular, single story building with a passenger waiting area on one end and a freight room at the other.
The depot served Green Bay until 1957, when it was donated by the railroad to the City of Green Bay. (The Milwaukee Road built another passenger depot nearer its rail yards to serve passengers.) The city then leased the old depot to the Chamber of Commerce, then sold it outright to them in 1986.
The depot was listed in the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with railroad and commercial development of Green Bay and also because of its distinctive architecture.
References
- Rucker, Della G. Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot (Brown County, Wisconsin). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. National Park Service, Washington D.C. 1996.
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Portal:National Register of Historic PlacesCategories:- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
- Railway stations opened in 1898
- Railway stations closed in 1957
- Stations along Milwaukee Road lines
- Railway stations in Wisconsin
- Buildings and structures in Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Transportation in Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Charles Sumner Frost buildings
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