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Union Depot (Pueblo, Colorado)
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| Location: | Victoria Avenue and B Street Pueblo, Colorado |
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| Built: | 1889-1890 |
| Architect: | Sprague & Newell |
| Architectural style: | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 75000535 |
Pueblo Union Depot is the historic railroad station in Pueblo, Colorado. It was built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1889-1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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In the early years it served the five railroads that served Pueblo: the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Colorado & Southern Railway (which was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1908), the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific. Today the Union Pacific Railroad and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway share the use of the tracks, and the depot is privately owned.
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are said to have arrived at this depot, as are Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Presidential candidate John Kerry almost a century later. Regular passenger train service is long gone now, but there is a proposal to bring commuter trains to the Interstate 25 corridor in the next few years (Front Range Commuter Rail).
The Pueblo Union Depot is located at 132 W. "B" Street, located within the Union Avenue Historic Commercial District. It is owned by Joseph and James Koncilja, two brothers and prominent members of the Pueblo community.
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Herrick
toward Denver
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Denver Branch |
Boone
toward La Junta
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toward Denver
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Denver Branch
Major stations
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Terminus
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