Dearborn Station
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Dearborn Station
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Dearborn Station head house, 2006
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| Location | 47 West Polk Street Chicago, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°52′19.78″N 87°37′41.89″W / 41.8721611°N 87.6283028°WCoordinates: 41°52′19.78″N 87°37′41.89″W / 41.8721611°N 87.6283028°W |
| Built | 1883 |
| Architect | Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz |
| Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 76000688 |
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| Added to NRHP | March 26, 1976 |
| Designated CL | March 2, 1982 |
Dearborn Station (also referred to as Polk Street Station) was the oldest of the six intercity train stations serving downtown Chicago, Illinois. It currently serves as office and retail space. Located at Dearborn and Polk Streets, the station was owned by the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad, which itself was owned by the companies operating over its line.
The Romanesque Revival structure, designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, opened May 8, 1885 at a cost of $400 to $500 thousand (equivalent to $10.7 to $13.3 million in 2017). The three-story building's exterior walls and twelve-story clock tower were composed of pink granite and red pressed brick topped by a number of steeply-pitched roofs. Modifications to the structure following a fire in 1922 included eliminating the original pitched roof profile. Behind the head house were the train platforms, shielded by a large train shed. Inside the station were ticket counters, waiting rooms, and Fred Harvey Company restaurants.
Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) chose to consolidate its Chicago operations at the Union Station. The final intercity passenger train to depart Dearborn Station was the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's International Limited, which departed on April 30, 1971. The arrival of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's San Francisco Chief and Grand Canyon from California on May 2 brought intercity operations at Dearborn to a close. The Norfolk & Western Railway's Orland Park commuter service, the Orland Park Cannonball, continued to use a platform at Dearborn until 1976.
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