Tracks 2 Fare zone 4 Opened 1903 Added to NRHP 20 April 1979 | Disabled access Yes Previous names Santa Rosa Rebuilt 2017 (expected) | |
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Location 7 4th Street
Santa Rosa, California
United States Part of Railroad Square District (#79000561) Built by Northwestern Pacific Railroad Similar San Francisco State Uni, Kirkwood/La Salle Station, Alameda Terminal, Marin Street Station, Gilman/Paul Station | ||
Santa Rosa–Railroad Square is a Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit train station in Santa Rosa scheduled to open in 2017. It is located west of Wilson Street between 4th and 5th Streets, across the U.S. Route 101 freeway from downtown at the site of the Santa Rosa Northwestern Pacific Railroad Depot.
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History
The original Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) Depot was built in 1903. Surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the station was eventually served by ten trains a day. Increased automobile ownership and highway construction led to decline of rail use in Sonoma County, thus leading to disuse of the facility as a passenger terminal.
In popular culture
Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film, Shadow of a Doubt, featured scenes filmed at the original NWP depot.
Railroad Square Historic District
The station is the focal point of the Railroad Square Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places historic district designated in 1979.