Minneapolis Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot, Freight House and Train Shed (also known as Milwaukee Road Depot ) is a former passenger and freight depot in Minneapolis , Minnesota . After it was shut down in 1971, it is now used by the hotel and catering industry under the name The Depot and contains a water park as well as an ice rink.
history
With the Minnesota Central Railroad , a predecessor of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from Minneapolis to Mendota , Minneapolis was connected to the railroad network in 1865. In 1879, the Minneapolis Railway Company built a warehouse and railroad station. This was replaced in 1899 by the construction of the station designed by Charles Frost in the neo-renaissance style and then demolished. Inside, the new train station was given magnificent passageways and waiting rooms with white marble and oak ceilings. The platform systems were roofed over by a light-flooded steel and glass construction. The construction costs were around 200,000 US dollars. A striking object is the clock tower, which was modeled on the Giralda in Seville . In 1941 a storm destroyed the top of the tower, which has had a flat roof ever since.
During the first half of the 20th century, large volumes of general cargo were shipped to and from the Minneapolis-St. Paul settled through the station. Passenger transport also played an increasingly important role. In 1916, 15 trains a day left the station, including the Hiawatha , which connected the Twin Cities with Chicago . The station reached its peak in 1920 when it handled 29 trains a day.
With the increasing development of motor vehicle and road traffic during this period, the importance of rail traffic and thus also of the train station decreased . In passenger traffic , the number of passengers and the handling of goods gradually fell. In 1971, rail operations were finally shut down and the associated building was used as an office building from then on. In 1978 the former station building was entered in the National Register of Historic Places as " Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot, Freight House and Train Shed ". After plans for redesign had been rejected again and again, the property was bought and redesigned by the CSM Corporation in the late 1990s. Completed in 2001, in addition to a Renaissance Hotel and a Residence Inn from the Marriott International hotel chain, it also includes several restaurants, an indoor water park and an ice rink .
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Coordinates: 44 ° 58 ′ 49 ″ N , 93 ° 15 ′ 47.6 ″ W.