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Union Station (Hartford, Connecticut)

Hartford Union Station
Hartford Union Station from street, May 2014.jpg
Hartford Union Station in May 2014
Location One Union Place
Hartford, Connecticut
United States
Coordinates 41°46′08″N 72°40′54″W / 41.76889°N 72.68167°W / 41.76889; -72.68167Coordinates: 41°46′08″N 72°40′54″W / 41.76889°N 72.68167°W / 41.76889; -72.68167
Owned by Greater Hartford Transit District
Line(s) New Haven–Springfield Line
Platforms 1
Tracks 1
Train operators Amtrak
Bus stands 15
Bus operators CTtransit Hartford
CTfastrak
Greyhound Lines
Peter Pan Bus Lines
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code Amtrak code: HFD
History
Opened 1889
Rebuilt 1914, 1987
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 171,690 Decrease 4.2%
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
toward New Haven
New Haven – Springfield Shuttle
Northeast Regional
Vermonter
toward St. Albans
ConnDOT
CTfastrak Terminus
  Planned service  
Hartford Line
beginning 2018
toward Springfield
Proposed infill station (2021)
Hartford Union Station
Location Union Place, Hartford, Connecticut
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built 1889
Architect Keller, George
Architectural style Other, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP Reference # 75001932
Added to NRHP November 25, 1975
Location
Hartford Union Station is located in Connecticut
Hartford Union Station
Hartford Union Station
Location within Connecticut

Hartford Union Station is the main railway station in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The historic station building is near the State Capitol Building. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque building designed by George Keller, executed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, and built in 1889. A 1914 fire required a rebuild; the interior was renovated in 1987. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.

It is served by Amtrak's New Haven-Springfield Line which branches off from the Northeast Corridor in New Haven. Of the 12 Connecticut stations served by Amtrak, Hartford was the third busiest in 2011.

The station is located on the western edge of downtown Hartford, on a three-acre (1.2 ha) block between Union Place and Spruce Street on the east and west and Church and Asylum streets to the north and south. Opposite the main building on Union Place are a mixture of other old buildings and parking lots. To the west is a triangular parking lot and the viaduct carrying Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 6, which curves around the north of the station as well. Across Asylum on the south is Bushnell Park, also listed on the Register.

The main building is located between the tracks and Union Place. It is a three-story rectangular building in rough-faced Portland brownstone with two smaller, similarly shaped two-story wings on the north and south. The main building has a flat roof; the wings are gabled and tiled, with dormer windows piercing them at regular intervals.


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