{"nrhp_refnum":"75000457","name":"Southern Pacific Railroad Company's Sacramento Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5th and I Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.58414135000004,"lon":-121.50119282899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story passenger station at 5th and I Streets in Sacramento, California, built in 1925 for the Southern Pacific Railroad on filled land that was once China Slough. Bliss and Faville of San Francisco designed it.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the depot as a major western transportation hub, with 86 trains a day in 1926, a level of activity surpassed only by a handful of large U.S. rail cities. It also highlights the building's Mediterranean-style design by the noted firm Bliss and Faville and its interior mural by John A. MacQuarrie.","narrative":"Sacramento's Southern Pacific passenger station, at 5th and I Streets, opened in 1925 as the railroad's fourth depot in the city. It was built on land reclaimed from China Slough, the last part of which was filled in 1919. San Francisco architects Bliss and Faville designed the three-story, steel-framed building, which has pink brick walls, russet tile roofs and terra cotta trim. Inside, the waiting room has a domed ceiling, an Italian marble floor and a mural by John A. MacQuarrie depicting the 1863 groundbreaking of the first transcontinental railroad. The complex cost more than $2.3 million and included offices, a restaurant, baggage rooms and ten passenger tracks. In 1926, 86 trains passed through daily, a volume exceeded only by a few of the nation's largest rail centers, and local shops built locomotives and train parts. The building is valued for its role in rail transportation, its architecture and its commerce.","period_of_significance":"20th Century","architect_builder":"Bliss and Faville (architects); Davison and Nicholsen of San Francisco (general contractors)","architectural_style":"Highly simplified Mediterranean, with Spanish and Italian Renaissance elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and unaltered, on its original site, and shown as occupied and in transportation use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.931977-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/75000457.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000457/600309a619-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000457/600309a619-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Randwick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacramento_Valley_Station.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Randwick</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:Sacramento_Valley_Station.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860670","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Valley_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097479"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/southern-pacific-railroad-companys-sacramento-depot-75000457/"}