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Oklahoma City Union Depot (Union Station)

300 SW 7th St, Oklahoma City, OK

Built to pull Rock Island and Frisco trains off downtown streets, Union Station lost its last passenger train in November 1967.

📅 1931–1967🏛️ Train StationRepurposed
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The story

Oklahoma City's Union Depot was finished in 1930 and opened to passengers on July 15, 1931. The Mission Revival building consolidated Rock Island and Frisco passenger service away from street-level rail lines downtown, and it served as the city's union station until 1967.

The end came in 1967: Frisco service stopped in May and Rock Island service in November, after which the depot closed to the public. The building survived. It is owned by the city, which has kept space for two rail tracks inside it, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The former yard tracks were replaced by the I-40 Crosstown realignment.

What's There Now

The building houses the offices of the Scissortail Park Foundation.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The depot was completed in 1930 but did not take passengers until July 15, 1931.
Space for two rail tracks has been kept inside the building.
The old yard tracks were replaced by the I-40 Crosstown realignment.

Nearby history

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Santa Fe Depot

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Cooper Cinerama Theatre (Liberty Theatre)

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Mercantile Building (Levy Building)

30 N Hudson Ave · 1.0 km away
An eight-story office building that survived three dynamite blasts before it finally fell on February 29, 1976.

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