Coordinates: 39°30′09″N 98°32′36″W / 39.50250°N 98.54333°W / 39.50250; -98.54333

Downs station

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Downs Missouri Pacific Depot
Downs station is located in Kansas
Downs station
Downs station is located in the United States
Downs station
Location710 Railroad Street
Downs, Kansas
Coordinates39°30′09″N 98°32′36″W / 39.50250°N 98.54333°W / 39.50250; -98.54333
Built1917
ArchitectMissouri Pacific Railroad
Architectural styleItalian Renaissance architecture
NRHP reference No.01001093[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 11, 2001[2]

The Downs station, nominated as the Downs Missouri Pacific Depot, is a historic railroad depot building at 710 Railroad Street in Downs, Kansas. The Missouri Pacific Railroad depot was located at a junction with lines radiating to Atchison, Lenora, and Stockton. The Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad completed the line from Atchison to Downs in 1879. However, this branch line better served the needs of the Missouri Pacific, which purchased the line in 1895. By the early 1900s, there were 18 trains a day serving Downs, which had a significant railroad presence with a ten stall roundhouse and associated railroad facilities. In 1916, the wooden depot burned down, necessitating the construction of the present brick depot.[1]

Passenger service to the depot lasted until at least 1959 with the station added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 11, 2001.[3][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Deon Wolfenbarger (November 18, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form". Retrieved July 16, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  3. ^ "Missouri Pacific 1959 timetable" (PDF). Retrieved July 16, 2024.
Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station
Nowhere
toward Ottawa
 Ottawa–Lawrence Vinland
toward Lawrence
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