Union Station

Landmark Context

Union Station is anchored to 210 S Canal St before any deeper archive work begins. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1913-25 and credits Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. It was designated on May 1, 2002. Union Station gives researchers a way to connect movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation to one actual site.

Union Station is best read on the ground through span, alignment, or platform relationships, connections to adjoining streets, rail lines, or water, and later mechanical change or deferred maintenance. That is often where the longer record of the place starts to come into focus: how circulation systems stay visible in structure, alignment, and surrounding land use.

Research Starting Points

Union Station usually reveals its next layer in engineering records and planning reports, historic maps and photographs, and newspaper coverage of openings, upgrades, and closures. Those records help separate what the landmark file says from what the longer building history actually shows.

Union Station still needs permits, photographs, and comparison, but the landmark record gives that work a stable point of return.