{"nrhp_refnum":"79000842","name":"Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Depot","other_names":["Batavia Depot Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"155 Houston St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Batavia","county":"Kane County","state":"IL","lat":41.85148000600003,"lon":-88.31047024999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wooden railroad passenger depot dating from 1854, now the Batavia Depot Museum at 155 Houston Street, Batavia, Kane County, Illinois. It was built for the Aurora Branch Railroad (later the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy) and moved in 1973 to its present site.","why_significant":"The depot is tied to the Aurora Branch Railroad, which the nomination credits with driving Batavia's prosperous windmill industry, and it was the first depot built by that company. It is also presented as a significant example of Gothic Revival design applied to small railroad depots in Illinois. The form cites a state survey listing about eight such depots in Illinois, only two of them in the northern half of the state.","narrative":"Built in 1854, this two-story wooden depot in Batavia, Illinois, was the first station constructed by the Aurora Branch Railroad, predecessor of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. It is finished in board and batten siding and has a steeply pitched gable roof, deep overhanging eaves, hood moldings, and wooden brackets with a trefoil outline, all hallmarks of Gothic Revival design. A flat-roofed addition from 1868 remains at the north end. After years of abandonment, the building was moved in 1973 to protect it from vandals and growing rail traffic, then restored as a museum with few exterior changes. The nomination links the depot to the railroad that fueled Batavia's windmill factories, which relied on rail shipping, and values it as one of roughly eight significant Gothic Revival depots in Illinois, only two of them in the northern half of the state.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored and in use as a museum owned by the Batavia Park District; moved in 1973 from its original location less than a mile away.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.581996-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/8931/28893178/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/79000842.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000842/875de8c08e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000842/875de8c08e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G LeTourneau","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago,_Burlington,_and_Quincy_Railroad_Depot_(Batavia,_IL)_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">G LeTourneau</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Chicago,_Burlington,_and_Quincy_Railroad_Depot_(Batavia,_IL)_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893178","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_Depot_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4868668"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/kane-county/chicago-burlington-and-quincy-railroad-depot-79000842/"}