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Coordinates: 38°54′59″N 97°12′54″W / 38.91639°N 97.21500°W / 38.91639; -97.21500 (Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot)
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Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot
The former Union Pacific Depot as seen from the parking lot across from Spruce Street and North 2nd Street
Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot is located in Kansas
Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot
LocationJct. of N. Second St. and Broadway, Abilene, Kansas[2]
Coordinates38°54′59″N 97°12′54″W / 38.91639°N 97.21500°W / 38.91639; -97.21500 (Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot)
Arealess than one acre
Built1928 (1928)
Built byJohnson, G.A., & Sons
ArchitectGilbert Stanley Underwood
Architectural styleMission/Spanish Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.92001175[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1992

The Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot is a former railroad station that serves as the headquarters of the Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau in Abilene, Kansas.[3] The station was built in 1928 (though not opened until 1929) as a replacement for a three-story depot combined with a railroad hotel, originally built by the Kansas Pacific Railway. It was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and was constructed by G.A. Johnson & Sons company in Chicago. It was designed in the Mission/Spanish Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival, as many Union Pacific stations were at the time. It is across from the junction of Northwest Second Street and Broadway

Though the address is given as being on Northwest Second Street and Broadway, it actually spans one block to the east to Spruce Street. The east parking lot reaches as far as K-15 (Buckeye Street), and the west parking lot reaches as far as Cedar Street across from the Union Pacific Freight Depot.

Former President Dwight David Eisenhower was said to have left the previous version of the station to get to West Point in 1911. His funeral train arrived at the existing station in 1969. Union Pacific terminated passenger service on May 1, 1971, surrendering most stations to Amtrak. Abilene was not one of those stations, yet they continued to own the station until 1986.

The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1992.[4]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 323. ISBN 978-0471143895.
  3. ^ "Abilene Travel Information Center | Visit Abilene, Kansas". abilenekansas.org. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  4. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot". National Park Service. Retrieved February 9, 2023. With accompanying pictures
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Preceding station Union Pacific Railroad Following station
Solomon
toward Denver
 Kansas Pacific Railway Detroit
toward Kansas City


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