Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed (also known as the Milwaukee Road Depot) is a former passenger and freight station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After it was decommissioned in 1971 he is now used under the name of The Depot of hotels and restaurants and in addition to a water park and an ice rink.

History

With the Minnesota Central Railroad, a predecessor company of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from Minneapolis to Mendota, Minneapolis received in 1865 following the railway network. 1879 built the railway company in Minneapolis a warehouse and a railway station. This was replaced in 1899 by the construction of the designed by Charles Frost in the architectural style of Neo-Renaissance station and subsequently demolished. Inside the new station was magnificent passages and equipped with white marble and oak ceiling concourses. The platform installations were covered by a light-filled steel and glass construction. The construction costs were around $ 200,000. A striking object is the clock tower, which was designed, modeled on the Giralda in Seville. 1941 a storm destroyed the roof top of the tower, which since then has a flat roof.

In the first half of the 20th century large quantities of transporting cargo to and from the region were Minneapolis -St. Paul handled by the station. Also the passenger played an increasingly important role. 1916 15 passenger trains daily leaving the station, including the Hiawatha, who joined the Twin Cities with Chicago. The climax reached the station in 1920, when he handling services 29 trains daily.

With increasing development of the automobile and road transport in this period reduced the importance of rail traffic and thus also of the station. In passenger transport, passenger numbers declined continuously and increasingly this happened also in cargo handling. In 1971 the railway operation was eventually shut down and then on the associated building used as an office building. In 1978, the former station building on the National Register of Historic Places as " Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed " was entered. After plans had been repeatedly rejected for the redesign, the late 1990s was bought and remodeled the property from the CSM Corporation. Completed in 2001, it includes not only a Renaissance Hotel and Residence Inn hotel chain Marriott International also several dining establishments, an indoor water park and an ice rink.