El Dorado station
Appearance
El Dorado Missouri Pacific Depot | |
Location | 430 N. Main St., El Dorado, Kansas |
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Coordinates | 37°49′18″N 96°50′57″W / 37.82167°N 96.84917°W |
Built | 1918 |
Architect | E. M. Tucker |
Architectural style | Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 94000429[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 6, 1994 |
The El Dorado Missouri Pacific Depot is a former passenger train station in El Dorado, Kansas, United States. It is a one-story, red-brick structure with a red-tile roof and wide, overhanging eaves designed by E. M. Tucker, Chief Engineer of the Missouri Pacific, in the Mission architectural style.
History
[edit]Constructed in 1918, the depot served the Missouri Pacific Railroad, on a freight-passenger line that ran east from Wichita to El Dorado then on to Eureka Yates Center, Durand, Iola, Moran, Bronson, and Ft. Scott.[2][better source needed]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "The big and little MoPac depots at El Dorado, KS".
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
Categories:
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1918
- Former Missouri Pacific Railroad stations
- Former railway stations in Kansas
- El Dorado, Kansas
- National Register of Historic Places in Butler County, Kansas
- Mission Revival architecture in Kansas
- Kansas Registered Historic Place stubs
- Midwestern United States railway station stubs
- Kansas building and structure stubs
- Kansas transportation stubs