Union Station (Phoenix, Arizona)

Phoenix Union Station
The station in 2014.
Location	401 South 4th Avenue Phoenix, Arizona United States
Coordinates	33°26′39″N 112°04′44″W / 33.44417°N 112.07889°W / 33.44417; -112.07889Coordinates: 33°26′39″N 112°04′44″W / 33.44417°N 112.07889°W / 33.44417; -112.07889
Owned by	Sprint Corporation
Line(s)	Union Pacific Railroad
Tracks	1
History
Opened	1923
Closed	June 3, 1996
Services
Former services   Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Yuma toward Los Angeles Sunset Limited Tempe toward New Orleans Texas Eagle Tempe toward Chicago Amtrak train services were discontinued May 28, 1996
Union Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
North Side of Union Station Phoenix, Arizona
Location	Fourth Ave. and Southern Pacific RR tracks, Phoenix, Arizona
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1923
Architect	Peter Kiewit
Architectural style	Mission Revival
MPS	Phoenix Commercial MRA
NRHP Reference #	85003056
Added to NRHP	November 25, 1985

Phoenix Union Station is located at 401 South 4th Avenue in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Service ended in 1996.

Phoenix Union Station was constructed in 1923 by the Santa Fe and the Arizona Eastern (Southern Pacific) Railroads. The Station is one of the best examples of Mission Revival architecture, along with Brophy College Preparatory, in Phoenix. The Mission Revival style, a popular building style between 1890 and the 1920s, was typified by such Union Station features as stucco wall finishes, arcades, red tiled roofs, curvilinear gables, massive piers, and impost moldings.

According to the "Phoenix Historic Building Survey" by the Phoenix City Council, September 1979:

Rob Bohannan presented this history at ARPA's dedication of the clock and plaque donated by ARPA members, January 11, 1992. Used with permission:

Phoenix Union Station was commissioned on September 16, 1922, by the Arizona Eastern Railroad Company, a Southern Pacific affiliate, and by the California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railroad, then part of the Santa Fe Railway system and was built by the Robert E. McKee Construction Company. Construction of this union station was the result of an order by the Arizona Corporation Commission to the railroads to consolidate their separate station facilities located several blocks apart in downtown Phoenix.

The main station building is 475 feet long and 74 feet wide. The adjoining Post Office building is 78 feet long and 62 feet wide. The mission revival style building is constructed of structural steel and reinforced concrete and was completed at a cost of $556,000.

Three years after the station was completed, the new Southern Pacific main line through Phoenix was opened with the arrival of the eastbound Californian on November 15, 1926. After the track was fully seasoned, the Golden State and Sunset Limited served the station beginning March 20 of the following year. Prior to this, the only access to SP's transcontinental trains was via connecting trains on the old Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad at Maricopa.