{"nrhp_refnum":"04001105","name":"Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Whittier","other_names":["Whittier Depot, City of Whittier Transportation Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7333 Greenleaf Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whittier","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.97452047500008,"lon":-118.03836040099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one- and two-story wood-frame Late Victorian Stick style railroad depot in Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, originally built in 1888 for the Southern Pacific Railroad and now at 7333 Greenleaf Avenue after being moved.","why_significant":"The depot is tied to Whittier's founding and early economic development, when the Southern Pacific spur carried the city's citrus crops. It is one of very few Southern Pacific depots from before 1900 to survive in Southern California. The 2004 registration form certifies it as locally significant.","narrative":"Whittier's Southern Pacific depot is a wood-frame building of one and two stories, finished in July 1888 after a box car had served as the first station. The railroad built a six-mile spur from the Norwalk area to reach the young town, founded the year before during Southern California's land boom. When the boom collapsed, the line carried the citrus crops that supported the local economy. A southern extension added in 1895 gave the Whittier Fruit Exchange space for packing fruit. Upstairs rooms housed station agents and their families, while the ground floor served as a passenger waiting room. The building is classed as Late Victorian, Stick style, with shiplap and shingle walls, wood brackets, bargeboards and cresting. It is regarded as an early link to Whittier's settlement and one of few pre-1900 Southern Pacific depots to survive in the region. It now sits at 7333 Greenleaf Avenue, where it houses transit offices, bus and shuttle stops and a museum of surface transportation.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Stick","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently serves as the City of Whittier Transportation Center, with transit offices, bus and shuttle stops, and a surface transportation museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.511478-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04001105.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001105/d3b213cb31-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001105/d3b213cb31-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Depot,_Whittier.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Depot,_Whittier.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859528","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7570280"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/southern-pacific-railroad-depot-whittier-04001105/"}