{"nrhp_refnum":"97000817","name":"Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Collins St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oregon","county":"Ogle County","state":"IL","lat":41.88339942600004,"lon":-87.82191001099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick and stucco passenger railroad depot at 400 Collins Street in Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, built in 1913 by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; T. S. Leake & Co. was the builder.","why_significant":"The depot is locally significant under Criterion A for transportation as Oregon's main rail hub for decades. It served tourists, soldiers, politicians and freight, linking the city to Chicago and beyond. The railroad also promoted Oregon as a resort town and helped bring industry to the area.","narrative":"Built in 1913 by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, this one-story depot on Collins Street in Oregon, Illinois, replaced an 1872 wood frame station lost to fire in 1910. The barbell-shaped building is about 100 feet long and 34 feet wide. It has a concrete foundation, red face brick and limestone at the base, stucco above, a ceramic tile roof and false half-timbering in its gabled ends. Inside are a general waiting room, ticket office, baggage room and rest rooms, with marble floors and tile wainscoting. For decades the depot was the city's most important transportation structure. It handled passengers to and from Chicago, including tourists drawn by the railroad's promotion of Oregon as a resort, visitors to nearby estates and an artists' colony, and soldiers leaving for both World Wars. It also housed the telegraph. The building is now vacant, though its original appearance is largely retained, and nearby tracks are still used by freight trains.","period_of_significance":"1913-1947","architect_builder":"T. S. Leake & Co., Builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use; the site is an inactive portion of an active railway route. Some windows are broken or boarded, and the chimney top is damaged, but the building is described as structurally sound.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.347732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/8938/28893821/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/97000817.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000817/f500d85c25-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000817/f500d85c25-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"Andy McMurray (A mcmurray)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogle_County_Burlington_Chicago_and_Quincy_depot_Oregon_Il.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy McMurray (A mcmurray)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogle_County_Burlington_Chicago_and_Quincy_depot_Oregon_Il.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893821","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_station_(Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5095407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/ogle-county/chicago-burlington-and-quincy-railroad-depot-97000817/"}