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Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Station

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1902, C. W. Felt; 2001 restored. 605 E. California St.

This red brick passenger and freight station displays California Mission style features (a trademark of the line), including red barrel tile roofs with extended overhangs and scrolled, gabled, end facades. The mostly one-story central portion housed a Harvey House restaurant with a second-floor dormitory for the Harvey Girls. Gainesville was a primary shipping point for North Central Texas at the time, with a dozen passenger trains arriving and tens of thousands of cattle leaving daily. By the late 1960s, rail travel had declined and passenger service ended by 1979. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway deeded the station to the city in 1981, and it was restored in 2001 to contain a museum, city offices, and a replica of the Harvey Girls’ quarters.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Butterfield Stage (Carnegie Library)
Gainesville Municipal Building
Cooke County Courthouse
Morton Museum of Cooke County (Gainesville City Hall, Fire Station, Jail)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Station", [Gainesville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD16.

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, 238-238.

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