Edgerton Depot

  • Also Known As: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot

  • Address: 20 S Main St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1853/00/00 Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Owner The Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad tracks reach Edgerton, then know as Fulton Station, connecting through Stoughton to Madison.
1906/00/00 Charles Fredrick Loweth Architect Designed by railroad engineer C F Loweth, whose name appears on the plans drawn on silk, construction begins on a new rail depot in Edgerton, Wisconsin, for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad.
1907/00/00 Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Owner Edgerton Depot is completed for the CMStP Railroad. Agents arrive by train from eastern and European cigar manufacturing firms to do business at the tobacco warehouses crowded around the depot. Edgerton is an international center of tobacco growing and tr
1938/00/00 The main section of the depot is divided into a waiting room at the east end, an enclosed office, ticket and telegraph area, containing painted built-in cabinetry, remodeled in 1939 using the original materials.

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Particulars for Edgerton Depot:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Historic Event
Architectural Style Late 19th and early 20th century american movements
Owner Private
Area of Significance Railroad
Historic Use Railroad Depot
Area of Significance Transportation



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 13th April 1998

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Edgerton Depot
Registry Address: 20 S. Main St.
Registry Number: 98000283
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: Loweth, C.F.
Architectural Style: Late 19th and early 20th century american movements
Contributing Buildings: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture, Transportation
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Event
Significant Year: 1906, 1907, 1938
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Rail-related
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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