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Barstow Harvey House

Barstow Harvey House
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Location 685 North 1st Avenue
Barstow, California 92311
United States
Coordinates 34°54′17″N 117°01′29″W / 34.90472°N 117.02472°W / 34.90472; -117.02472Coordinates: 34°54′17″N 117°01′29″W / 34.90472°N 117.02472°W / 34.90472; -117.02472
Owned by City of Barstow/BNSF
Line(s) BNSF Railway
Platforms 1 side platform
(others out of service)
Tracks Only 1 passing siding and 1 through track remaining
Construction
Parking Free
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code Amtrak code: BAR
History
Opened 22 February 1911
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 3,436 Increase 11.9% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
toward Los Angeles
Southwest Chief
toward Chicago
  Former services  
toward Los Angeles
Desert Wind
Discontinued in 1997
toward Chicago
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
toward Los Angeles
Main Line
toward Los Angeles
Main Line
Major stations
toward Oakland
Oakland – Barstow Terminus
Harvey House Railroad Depot
Location Santa Fe Depot,
Barstow, California
Area 1.1 acres (0.4 ha)
Built 1911
Architect Francis W. Wilson
Architectural style Other, Santa Fe
NRHP Reference # 75000458
CHISL # 892
Significant dates
Added to NRHP April 3, 1975
Designated CHISL 1976
Location
Barstow Harvey House is located in California
Barstow Harvey House
Barstow Harvey House
Location within California

Barstow Harvey House, also known as Harvey House Railroad Depot and Barstow station, is a historic building in Barstow, California. Originally built in 1911 as Casa del Desierto, a Harvey House hotel and Santa Fe Railroad depot, it currently serves as an Amtrak station and government building housing city offices, the Barstow Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, and two museums.

The Casa del Desierto station and hotel was built in 1911 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace an earlier one built in 1885 that burned in 1908. The Santa Fe closed the station in 1973. It became derelict until bought by the City of Barstow, and rebuilt following heavy damage in a 1992 earthquake.

The building is a synthesis of Spanish Renaissance and Classical Revival architecture styles, with a Moorish feeling as well. The concrete frame is faced with red tapestry brick and beige artificial stone. Majestic arcades and colonnades line the facade, providing shade from the desert sun. Red clay barrel tiles are used to cover the roof. Towers at the building's corners, and those of the central projecting bay facing the tracks, are capped with pointed roofs or painted domes.

Francis W. Wilson is the architect credited by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service. Amtrak's Great American Stations site says that "according to contemporary accounts, the Casa del Desierto ... was designed by Francis W. Wilson of Santa Barbara, Calif." Earlier Wilson had designed the Fray Marcos hotel in Williams, Arizona, and El Garces in Needles, California for the Santa Fe and Fred Harvey.


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