Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 02000492 Added to NRHP 1 October 2002 | Built 1925-27 Phone +1 785-232-5533 | |
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Architect Underwood, Gilbert Stanley MPS Railroad Resources of Kansas MPS Address 701 N Kansas Ave, Topeka, KS 66608, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–4PMThursday10AM–4PMFriday10AM–4PMSaturday10AM–4PMSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesday10AM–4PMWednesday10AM–4PM Similar Combat Air Museum, Brown v Board of Educatio, Kansas Children's Discovery, Ward‑Meade Park Botanical, Old Prairie Town at Ward‑Me Profiles | ||
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Great Overland Station, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot, is a museum and former railroad station in Topeka, Kansas. The station was built from 1925 to 27 and designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, whose firm designed over 20 Union Pacific Railroad stations from 1924 to 1931. The station's Free Classical Revival design uses terra cotta extensively and features a center pavilion with two increasingly smaller pavilions on either side. Passenger service to the station began in January 1927; almost 20,000 people attended the station's grand opening, and the new station was considered "one of the largest and finest stations west of the Missouri River".
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Passenger totals at the station declined through the 1950s and 1960s, and the last regular passenger service to the station ended in 1971. The Union Pacific Railroad repurposed the station as office space and a customer service center before abandoning the building in 1989. In 1992, a fire damaged the western part of the station; the same year, the group Railroad Heritage, Inc. (then known as Topeka Railroad Days, Inc.) agreed to consider renovating the station. The station was extensively rehabilitated from 2000 to 2002 and is now a railroad heritage museum.
The Great Overland Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 2002.