Oconomowoc Milwaukee Road depot
Oconomowoc, United States
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The Milwaukee Road Depot in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, is a Victorian-era railroad station designed by architect Charles Sumner Frost and completed in 1896 for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. The one-story building features a hip roof and is clad in split granite, characteristic of Frost's refined station architecture. The depot served as a stop for the Twin Cities Hiawatha passenger train from the service's inception in 1935 until its discontinuation in 1971. Today the structure houses Maxim's Restaurant, while a vintage Northern Pacific Railway passenger car from 1923—later painted red and operated on the Kettle Moraine Scenic Railway—remains on display outside alongside a preserved railway platform. The Canadian Pacific Railway's Watertown Subdivision still runs adjacent to the site. The depot was recognized for its historical significance through listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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- Built
- Type
- railway station
- Heritage
- listed in the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Oconomowoc, United States
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