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Cincinnati Union Terminal

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
UnionTerminal.jpg
Exterior view of the Cincinnati Museum Center
Location 1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, OH
Owned by City of Cincinnati
Line(s)
  Cardinal
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Connections SORTA
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code CIN
History
Opened 1933
Rebuilt 1980
Traffic
Passengers (2013) 15,213 Decrease 6.1%
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
toward Chicago
Cardinal
  Former services  
Baltimore and Ohio
toward St. Louis
St. Louis Line
toward Cumberland
Terminus Cincinnati – Toledo
toward Toledo
Cincinnati – Pittsburgh
toward Pittsburgh
New York Central Railroad
toward Chicago
Chicago – Cincinnati
(Big Four Railroad)
Terminus
Terminus Cincinnati – Cleveland
toward Cleveland
Cincinnati – Toledo
toward Toledo
Pennsylvania Railroad
toward Chicago
Chicago – Cincinnati Terminus
Terminus Cincinnati – Columbus
toward Columbus
Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway
toward Dayton
Cincinnati Union Terminal
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is located in Ohio
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is located in the US
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
Location 1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio
Coordinates 39°6′36″N 84°32′16″W / 39.11000°N 84.53778°W / 39.11000; -84.53778Coordinates: 39°6′36″N 84°32′16″W / 39.11000°N 84.53778°W / 39.11000; -84.53778
Built 1933
Architect Fellheimer & Wagner
Architectural style Art Deco
NRHP Reference # 72001018
Added to NRHP October 31, 1972

The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a passenger railroad station in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. After the decline of railroad travel, most of the building was converted to other uses, and now houses museums, theaters, and a library, as well as special travelling exhibitions.

Cincinnati was a major center of railroad traffic in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially as an interchange point between railroads serving the Northeastern and Midwestern states with railroads serving the South. However, intercity passenger traffic was split among no fewer than five stations in Downtown Cincinnati, requiring the many travelers who changed between railroads to navigate local transit themselves. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which operated through sleepers with other railroads, was forced to split its operations between two stations. Proposals to construct a union station began as early as the 1890s, and a committee of railroad executives formed in 1912 to begin formal studies on the subject, but a final agreement between all seven railroads that served Cincinnati and the city itself would not come until 1928, after intense lobbying and negotiations, led by Philip Carey Company president George Crabbs. The seven railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; the Norfolk and Western Railway; the Pennsylvania Railroad; and the Southern Railway selected a site for their new station in the West End, near the Mill Creek.


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