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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1880/08/25 Ulysses S Grant Visitor US Grant and wife stop at the old wooden UP depot on his way to Illinois from Denver. He briefly met with Gen Brackett from Fort DA Russell. Dined in the old UP Depot dining room and gave a impromptu speech from the balcony of the old depot hotel.
1880/09/04 William T Sherman Visitor President Hayes speaks to a small crowd in Cheyenne from the depot platform, during his nearly 2 month long trip through the western United States. First Lady Hayes, Gen William T Sherman and Secretary of State William Evarts are among the party.
1880/09/04 Rutherford B Hayes Visitor President Hayes speaks to a small crowd in Cheyenne from the depot platform, during his nearly 2 month long trip through the western United States. First Lady Hayes, Gen William T Sherman and Secretary of State William Evarts are among the party.
1880/09/04 William Maxwell Evarts Visitor President Hayes speaks to a small crowd in Cheyenne from the depot platform, during his nearly 2 month long trip through the western United States. First Lady Hayes, Gen William T Sherman and Secretary of State William Evarts are among the party.
1886/03/15 John T Coots Contractor Contract to build the structure is awarded to J F Coots of Kansas City. The UP hired John Coots for many of its construction projects, at the time he was working on an addition to the UP headquarters in Omaha and several other smaller projects.
1887/00/00 Van Brunt and Howe Architect Built 1886-1887, the Union Pacific Depot in Cheyenne is the last of the grand 19th century depots remaining on the transcontinental railroad and one of the best articulated examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in the West.
1892/04/05 Frank Wolcott Mercenary Cattlemen from 6 large Johnson County operations, 5 stock detectives including Frank M Canton, 22 Texan gunfighters, George Dunning from Idaho and their commander Major Frank Wolcott and Dr Charles Penrose set out from Cheyenne on the afternoon train. Johnson County War
1929/00/00 Gilbert Stanley Underwood Architect Breezeway is enclosed to form a new entrance, Victorian interior changed to Spanish Revival, 1880s walls and coffered ceilings plastered over and painted in warm tones and stenciled in Spanish patterns, Rustic-style lamps are hung from the ceiling

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Particulars for Union Pacific Railroad Depot:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Commerce
Criteria Historic Event
Level of Significance National
Area of Significance Railroad
Historic Use Railroad Depot
Architectural Style Richardsonian Romanesque
Architectural Style Romanesque Revival
Area of Significance Transportation



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 73001934
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Van Brunt and Howe; Coots,John T.
Architectural Style: Other, Romanesque
Attribute: Richarsonian Romanesque
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark, Additional documentation
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local; National
Area of Significance: Commerce, Transportation, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1875-1899
Significant Year: 1886, 1887, 1923
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Rail-related
Current Function: Transportation, Recreation and Culture, Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function: Rail-related Restaurant Business Museum

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