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Built 1899. Beaux Arts design features native stone banding. When intact, north windows of painted glass depicted travel from Pony Express to steam locomotives. Visitors here have included such world figures as Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson. Depot was used by six railroad companies. As of 1970, Santa Fe served Texas with greater trackage than any other railroad, 5102 miles.
Santa Fe Depot is a historical marker in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, dedicated in 1970. It is one of 354 historical markers documented in Tarrant County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 458 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7491, -97.3243 near Fort Worth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe Railroad Passenger Station (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hell's Half Acre, Texas Spring Palace, and Texas & Pacific Terminal Building.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5439004577. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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