{"nrhp_refnum":"84001953","name":"Weatherford-Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railroad Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S. Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mineral Wells","county":"Palo Pinto County","state":"TX","lat":32.80613137000006,"lon":-98.11165492299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A long, narrow red-orange brick railroad depot in the southern part of downtown Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas, built in 1910 to handle freight and passenger service on the Weatherford-Mineral Wells and Northwestern line.","why_significant":"The depot is tied to Mineral Wells' growth as a health resort in the early 1900s, when rail service carried visitors and bottled mineral water. It is a typical elongated early twentieth-century station design with separate passenger and freight zones. Its round-arched covered lobbies and deep eaves show Romanesque Revival and Richardsonian influence.","narrative":"This brick railroad depot stands in the 200 block of South Oak Street on the southern edge of downtown Mineral Wells, Texas. Built in 1910 after an earlier wooden depot burned, it served the Weatherford-Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railroad, which Texas and Pacific bought in 1902. The long plan places an express company area, waiting rooms, office, trainmen's room, baggage room and warehouse in a line along the tracks. Red-orange brick, limestone sills, corbeled arches and deep bracketed eaves show Richardsonian and Romanesque Revival influence, and two open lobbies sheltered passengers and wagons. The depot matters because Mineral Wells grew as a health resort around its mineral waters. By 1915 it handled 200,000 passengers a year, and millions of bottles of water were shipped out annually. Rail traffic fell after the Depression. At the time of listing the building was vacant, privately owned and in need of repair, with rehabilitation expected.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Richardsonian influence / Romanesque Revival detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as privately owned and unoccupied (vacant). Needs repairs to gutters, brick and mortar, and repainting; rehabilitation was anticipated.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.035637-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/9731/40973152/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84001953.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001953/612451b1d5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001953/612451b1d5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Barera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mineral_Wells_May_2017_36_(Weatherford-Mineral_Wells_and_Northwestern_Railroad_Depot).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Barera</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:Mineral_Wells_May_2017_36_(Weatherford-Mineral_Wells_and_Northwestern_Railroad_Depot).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005524","name":"Mineral Wells Central Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/mineral-wells-central-historic-district-100005524/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973152","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/palo-pinto-county/weatherford-mineral-wells-and-northwestern-railroad-depot-84001953/"}