{"nrhp_refnum":"75001955","name":"Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1174 E. Commerce St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.42027689300005,"lon":-98.47816274199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A railroad passenger station at 1174 E. Commerce Street on the southeast edge of downtown San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, built in 1902 of brick and adobe in the Mission Style for the Southern Pacific Railroad.","why_significant":"The station is described as one of the finest examples of Mission Style applied to railroad architecture in Texas, noted for its craftsmanship and detailing and its reflection of turn-of-the-century Southwestern tastes. It is also significant because neither the station nor its outbuildings have been altered since 1902. It served Southern Pacific trains such as the Sunset Limited.","narrative":"Southern Pacific's passenger station on East Commerce Street in San Antonio opened in 1902 and is an example of Mission Style railroad architecture. Built of brick and adobe with white plaster walls, it has twin towers flanking the entrance, red tile roofs, and a parapet modeled on the Alamo. Baroque relief sculpture around the tower windows echoes the rose window at San Jose Mission. Inside, the waiting room sits under a barrel vault 40 feet high, with a balcony, a divided stairway, a coffered ceiling and a skylight. A platform about 1,200 feet long was designed for 16-car trains, and a Railway Express Agency building stands to the south. The station replaced an earlier depot from 1877, when the first railroad reached the city. It handled the Sunset Limited, daily after 1902 until Amtrak took over in 1971. The station and its outbuildings are noted as unaltered since construction.","period_of_significance":"1902","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mission Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"At the time of nomination the station served one Amtrak passenger train, the Sunset, three times a week. Its offices housed Southern Pacific's San Antonio freight operation headquarters. The facilities were well maintained, with tentative plans for an intermodal urban transportation center.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.633824-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/9712/40971227/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75001955.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001955/66e60aa0d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001955/66e60aa0d2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Tony Kent","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Antonio_Train_Station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Kent</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Antonio_Train_Station.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002917","name":"Southern Pacific Depot Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/southern-pacific-depot-historic-district-79002917/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_station_(Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7413360"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/southern-pacific-railroad-passenger-station-75001955/"}