Cheyenne Depot historic Union Pacific
— — sandstone the railroad cut for itself.
Not only on a wall.
“The Union Pacific depot anchors the south end of Capitol Avenue in downtown Cheyenne, a long sandstone-and-brownstone block of round arches and a clock tower facing the capitol fourteen blocks north. It was completed in 1887 to a design by Henry Van Brunt and Frank Howe, then the railroad's house architects, and ran passenger service until 1971. Today it holds a museum on the second floor and a plaza where the trains still pass on the south side. Best read at the hour, when the tower bell carries down Lincolnway. from the studio
Cheyenne Depot historic Union Pacific, on ceramic.
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The Cheyenne Depot stands at 121 West 15th Street, at the south end of Capitol Avenue in downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was built between 1886 and 1887 by the Union Pacific Railroad to designs by Henry Van Brunt and Frank Howe of Kansas City, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style then dominant for American railway architecture. The building runs roughly three hundred feet east to west, faced in red sandstone quarried near Fort Collins, with a four-story clock tower at the centre. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006 and now houses the Cheyenne Depot Museum.
The facade is Fort Collins red sandstone over a base course of darker brownstone, laid in heavy rusticated blocks that read as the building's signature texture from across the plaza. The arched windows of the main waiting hall are eighteen feet tall and trimmed in the same stone. The clock tower rises about one hundred and twenty-eight feet and carries a working four-face mechanical clock restored in the 1990s. Van Brunt and Howe used the same Richardsonian vocabulary on depots for the Union Pacific in Portland and Omaha, but the Cheyenne building is the largest and best preserved of the three.
The Cheyenne Depot Museum is open Monday through Saturday from ten to five and Sunday afternoons in summer, with reduced winter hours. Adult admission is currently ten dollars; children under twelve are free with an adult. The Depot Plaza on the building's south side hosts the Friday night summer concert series and the farmers market on Saturday mornings from July through September. Freight trains still pass on the Union Pacific main line directly behind the platform, frequent enough that a fifteen-minute visit will usually catch one. On-street parking is free in the surrounding blocks.