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2 businesses at this address since 1889

Santa Fe Depot

100 S E.K. Gaylord Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK

The Art Deco depot of 1934 was the third station on this spot, lost its trains in 1979 and sat empty for about twenty years.

📅 1934–1979🏛️ Train StationRepurposed
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The story

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway put its third Oklahoma City station on this site in 1934, an Art Deco building that combined freight and passenger service. Earlier stations had stood here since 1889 and 1901. The second was closed in 1932 and demolished in 1933.

Passenger service ended in 1979 when Amtrak discontinued the Lone Star, and the building then sat vacant for about 20 years and deteriorated. In 1998 developer Jim Brewer bought it, and about $2 million in state funds paid for a renovation. The Heartland Flyer began running in 1999. The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015, and the Oklahoma City Streetcar, which opened in 2018, has a stop nearby across the tracks on Reno Avenue.

What's There Now

It is an Amtrak station and the northern end of the Heartland Flyer to Fort Worth.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

A 2010 lockdown by the building's operator led to a state lease with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
The 1934 building replaced a station that had been demolished only a year after it closed.
Amtrak counted 57,159 passengers here in fiscal year 2025.

Nearby history

Hotel Lawrence

19 W Grand Ave · 128 m away
The neighboring hotel at 17 West Grand, built with Kingkade, eight stories originally; its fate is not stated in the sou

Prairie Surf Studios

1 Myriad Gardens · 189 m away
Converted to five sound stages in 2021 and used for Killers of the Flower Moon, Tulsa King, American Underdog and Twiste

Huckins Hotel

22 N Broadway Ave · 231 m away
Rebuilt after a 1908 fire, it sold itself with a garage annex that let guests 'Drive Right Into the Huckins Hotel.'

Criterion Theatre

118 W Main St · 331 m away
A French-style movie palace with a Wurlitzer organ, it was the last building on the 100 block of West Main to fall.

Biltmore Hotel

228 W Grand Ave · 393 m away
At 33 stories it was the tallest building in Oklahoma, and it was brought down with explosives in 1977, four years after

Cooper Cinerama Theatre (Liberty Theatre)

19 N Robinson Ave · 396 m away
Opened as the Liberty in 1915, it became the Harber and then the Cooper, where Cinema Treasures says Cinerama and Cinemi

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Depot_(Oklahoma_City)