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Orlando Atlantic Coast Line Station (Orlando Health/Amtrak Station)

1400 Sligh Blvd, Orlando, FL

A 1926 Spanish Mission style station built for the Atlantic Coast Line, which replaced the Church Street depot and made the National Register in 2022.

📅 1926–present🏛️ Train StationStill here
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The story

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad built this station in 1926, in Spanish Mission style. Wikipedia credits the architects as A.M. Griffin and W.T. Hadlow. It replaced the Church Street depot, which lost passenger service the same year. After the Coast Line merged with the Seaboard Air Line in 1967, the building passed to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

Several Atlantic Coast Line long-distance trains stopped here in peak years, until service declined in the 1950s and 1960s. The St. Petersburg section of the Floridian stopped here until 1979. Amtrak's Sunset Limited stopped in Orlando from 1996 until August 29, 2005. The SunRail platform opened May 1, 2014. In 2014 the city announced a $2.1 million restoration, the first major renovation since 1990, and work ran from September 24, 2014, to June 29, 2015. It restored the 1926 wood doors and windows. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 2022.

What's There Now

Still a working station served by Amtrak and SunRail.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The Sunset Limited reached Orlando only from 1996 to 2005.
The 2015 restoration kept the original 1926 wood doors and windows.
The 2014 work was the first major renovation since 1990.

Nearby history

American Federal Building

455 S Orange Ave · 1.3 km away
A mid-century bank tower with a precast concrete screen, torn down for the Dr. Phillips Center; the screen was saved and

Orlando Drive-In Theatre

1001 S Orange Blossom Trail · 1.6 km away
The area's first drive-in opened on February 7, 1940, with Vivacious Lady and a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Church Street Station entertainment district

4 Depot Place · 1.6 km away
Bob Snow's club-hopping complex built around the depot and neighboring Church Street buildings.

Dickson & Ives

214 S Orange Ave · 1.6 km away
A grocery that became a department store in 1913, was rebuilt in 1920, and closed on April 11, 1965.

Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium

129 W Church St · 1.6 km away
Bob Snow's sawdust-floored Dixieland saloon opened on July 19, 1974 and became the seed of Church Street Station, one of

Rialto Theatre

27 W Church St · 1.6 km away
A 450-seat Mission Revival grindhouse with a huge marquee and double features; Cinema Treasures says demolished, a 2011

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Health/Amtrak_station