Downs station

	Downs Missouri Pacific Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	710 Railroad Street; Downs, Kansas
Coordinates	39°30′09″N 98°32′36″W / 39.50250°N 98.54333°W
Built	1917
Architect	Missouri Pacific Railroad
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance architecture
NRHP reference No.	01001093
Added to NRHP	October 11, 2001

The Downs station, nominated as the Downs Missouri Pacific Depot, is a historic railroad depot building at 710 Railroad Street in Downs, Kansas. The Missouri Pacific Railroad depot was located at a junction with lines radiating to Atchison, Lenora, and Stockton. The Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad completed the line from Atchison to Downs in 1879. However, this branch line better served the needs of the Missouri Pacific, which purchased the line in 1895. By the early 1900s, there were 18 trains a day serving Downs, which had a significant railroad presence with a ten stall roundhouse and associated railroad facilities. In 1916, the wooden depot burned down, necessitating the construction of the present brick depot.^[1]

Passenger service to the depot lasted until at least 1959 with the station added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 11, 2001.^[3]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Deon Wolfenbarger (November 18, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form". Retrieved July 16, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "Missouri Pacific 1959 timetable" (PDF). Retrieved July 16, 2024.

Preceding station	Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway		Following station
Nowhere toward Ottawa		Ottawa–Lawrence	Vinland toward Lawrence
Preceding station	Missouri Pacific Railroad		Following station
Osborne toward Stockton		St. Joseph-Stockton	Cawker City toward St. Joseph

[nom-1] Deon Wolfenbarger (November 18, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form". Retrieved July 16, 2024.

[nris-2] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[3] "Missouri Pacific 1959 timetable" (PDF). Retrieved July 16, 2024.

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