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Commercial Building (Burlington–Rock Island Railroad Depot)

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c. 1905. 423 S. College St.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railroad, the southern component of a Midwestern rail system commonly called the “Rock Island,” was chartered in 1902 to build a line from Fort Worth through Dallas to Galveston. This station and an identical one in Corsicana (CW14) were constructed as the railroad was extended south. With its octagonal telegrapher’s tower, flared hipped roof with deep eaves, and arched passageway, the design recalls Richardsonian Romanesque stations built in the northeast during the 1880s.

Across the track at 501 S. Rogers is the Waxahachie Depot (c. 1895), built by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (“Katy”). The orientation of the two stations reflected the converging, nonparallel track alignment.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Waxahachie City Hall (U.S. Post Office and Federal Building)
Ellis County Museum (Masonic Lodge)
Citizens National Bank
Ellis County Courthouse
Commercial Building (Citizens National Bank)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Commercial Building (Burlington–Rock Island Railroad Depot)", [Waxahachie, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-CW26.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 88-88.

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