{"nrhp_refnum":"98001547","name":"Union Station","other_names":["Davis Garage"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.09333221500003,"lon":-80.22820271699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-12-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Union Station is a Beaux Arts-style brick and limestone railroad passenger station at 300 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, built between 1924 and 1926 and opened April 15, 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a handsome example of Beaux Arts design and of the well-equipped union passenger stations of its era, designed by the New York firm Fellheimer and Wagner. It is also significant in local transportation history as the city's sole passenger station from 1926 to 1970 and the only surviving passenger station in Winston-Salem.","narrative":"Union Station in Winston-Salem is a three-level brick and limestone railroad station built from 1924 to 1926 and opened on April 15, 1926. Three railroads formed the Winston-Salem Terminal Company to build it, hiring the New York firm Fellheimer and Wagner as architects and the Northeastern Construction Company as builder, at a cost of $800,000. The Beaux Arts design features a limestone portico with paired columns on the north entrance, a terrazzo-floored central lobby, marble wainscots, and separate waiting areas that reflect the segregation practices of the period. The station served as the city's only passenger depot until service ended in 1970. It is the grandest of the city's passenger stations and the only one that survives. Later used as an automobile repair shop, it kept most of its original layout and detailing, though the bridge concourse over the tracks was demolished in 1974. It was recognized for its architecture and its role in local transportation history.","period_of_significance":"1926-1948","architect_builder":"Fellhimer & Wagner, Architects (Fellhimer, Alfred & Wagner, Steward); Northeastern Construction Co., Builder","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used for more than twenty years as an automobile repair business (Davis Garage); the building remains largely intact, though the bridge concourse over the tracks was removed in 1974 and the north and east doors were replaced with rolling garage doors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.181656-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7202/47720240/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/98001547.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001547/58b2e10fb1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001547/58b2e10fb1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Station_(Winston-Salem,_N.C.).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</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:Union_Station_(Winston-Salem,_N.C.).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720240","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18619358"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/union-station-98001547/"}