{"nrhp_refnum":"75000590","name":"Union Depot","other_names":["Terminal Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Roosevelt Ave. and N. Front St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Dougherty County","state":"GA","lat":31.57982983000005,"lon":-84.07559670899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-02-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A c.1910 brick railroad passenger terminal, also called Terminal Station, at the dead ends of Roosevelt Avenue and North Front Street in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia. It has a central waiting-room building, a baggage room and a former restaurant building.","why_significant":"The depot opened in 1910 as railroad traffic made Albany a major southwest Georgia city, and it served passengers for over sixty years until the last passenger train left on May 1, 1971. Its horizontal Prairie-style design, an early use of that style on a commercial building, is cited as evidence of Albany's progressive character. It is the last remaining vestige of the city's passenger rail service.","narrative":"Albany's Union Depot, also known as Terminal Station, is a long, low brick railroad station built about 1910 at the end of an open brick plaza on Front Street. Its dark red brick walls, hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves cover a central block with waiting rooms and ticket offices, flanked by a baggage room and a former restaurant joined by covered passageways. Long umbrella sheds shelter the platforms. The station opened as railroad lines multiplied around Albany, with as many as 35 passenger trains arriving daily and luxury trains running between Chicago and Miami. Its ribbon windows, massive porch piers and emphasis on horizontal lines reflect the Prairie style, which Frank Lloyd Wright had introduced in houses only about a decade earlier. The architect is unknown. The last passenger train departed on May 1, 1971, and the building was later unoccupied, with adaptive reuse proposed as funding allowed.","period_of_significance":"20th Century (c.1910)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Prairie School elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied at the time of nomination, in fair, altered condition; proposals for adaptive reuse awaited funding.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.478058-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/75000590.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000590/585537b6a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000590/585537b6a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Station_Dept,_Albany.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Station_Dept,_Albany.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207880","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Albany,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124653687"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dougherty-county/union-depot-75000590/"}