Union Terminal (Cincinnati)

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
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  6.1%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Connersville toward Chicago Cardinal Maysville toward New York City   Former services   Baltimore and Ohio Delhi toward St. Louis St. Louis Line Winton Place toward Cumberland Terminus Cincinnati – Toledo Winton Place toward Toledo Cincinnati – Pittsburgh Winton Place toward Pittsburgh New York Central Railroad Delhi toward Chicago Chicago – Cincinnati (Big Four Railroad) Terminus Terminus Cincinnati – Cleveland Winton Place toward Cleveland Cincinnati – Toledo Winton Place toward Toledo Pennsylvania Railroad Winton Place toward Chicago Chicago – Cincinnati Terminus Terminus Cincinnati – Columbus Winton Place toward Columbus Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway Elsinore toward Dayton
Cincinnati Union Terminal
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
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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.