National Historic Landmark · railway museum · Cheyenne, Wyoming

Union Pacific Railroad Depot

Railroad museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming, US. Built 1886. Added to the National Register in 1973, and a National Historic Landmark.

Open to visitNational Historic LandmarkBuilt 1886Listed 1973Romanesque Revival architecture
1877 Union Pacific R.R. Depot Cheyenne Wyoming Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 3b02289uUS-WY(1891) p908 CHEYENNE, UNION STATIONBronze statue titled Hard to LeaveCheyenne - Former Union Pacific Depot
Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 6 in the Commons category

What it is

Wikipedia · Cheyenne Depot Museum

The Cheyenne Depot Museum is a railroad museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. It is located inside the 1880s Union Pacific Railroad depot. A National Historic Landmark, the station was the railroad's largest west of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and a major western example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
Address121 W. 15th St., Cheyenne, WY
CountyLaramie County
ListedJan 29, 1973
Reference number73001934
Built1886
Type of placerailway museum, railway station
StyleRomanesque Revival architecture
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources1 buildings

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
Address121 W. 15th St., Cheyenne, WY
Websitecheyennedepotmuseum.org ↗
Coordinates41.13356, -104.81478 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitRocky Mountain National Park · 71 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyVedauwoo Tent Campground (Wy) 29 mi · Vedauwoo Gazebo 29 mi · Vedauwoo Campground (Wy) 29 mi
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 73001934. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.