Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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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 |
Particulars for Union Pacific Railroad Depot: | |
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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 |
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