58th station

58th
58th before demolition in 2012
Location	320-24 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637
Coordinates	41°47′21″N 87°37′05″W / 41.789233°N 87.618027°W / 41.789233; -87.618027
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Green Line
Platforms	1 Island Platform
Tracks	2 tracks
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	January 22, 1893
Closed	January 9, 1994
Rebuilt	1983
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station Garfield toward Harlem/Lake Green Line Englewood Branch Halsted toward Ashland/63rd Green Line Jackson Park 61st toward University

58th was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Green Line in the Washington Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station was located at 320-24 E. 58th Street. 58th opened on January 22, 1893, as part of the South Side Elevated Railroad's expansion to serve the World's Columbian Exposition. The station closed with the rest of the Green Line on January 9, 1994, to be rebuilt, but did not reopen with the rest of the Green Line on May 12, 1996, because of its proximity to the Garfield station.

58th opened on January 22, 1893, when the South Side Elevated Railroad expanded southward to serve the World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park. The station was designed by Myron H. Church and built by the Rapid Transit and Bridge Construction Company, and it included elements of the Queen Anne style as well as the Chicago school. The original station house was brick and had a half-cone bay at the top of the building. 58th was built with an island platform, an anomaly among the South Side Elevated stations which generally had two side platforms. The original canopy was hump-shaped; this style was common among South Side Elevated stations at the time, but the canopy at 58th outlasted most of the original canopies at other stations.

When the Englewood Branch became part of the South Side Elevated in 1905, 58th became the transfer station between the Englewood and Jackson Park branches. At the start of the branch's operation, the South Side Elevated ran shuttle trains from 58th to the end of the branch, and passengers had to take Jackson Park trains from 58th. Express service from Englewood to downtown was established in 1906, and the shuttle to 58th was discontinued in 1911. 58th remained the transfer station between the two branches until A/B skip stop service went into effect in 1949. The station then became an "A" station and only served Englewood trains, and 51st became the transfer station between the two branches. 58th shortly became the transfer point again in 1993 when the CTA discontinued skip-stop service.