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 Missouri Pacific Depot - Pleasant Hill, Mo. Posted by:  iconions
N 38° 47.144 W 094° 16.448
15S E 389336 N 4293770
This one-story red brick building is located at 100 Wyoming Street in Pleasant Hill, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMNY8B
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/23/2015
Views: 1
Building is still in use as a museum and for shops and is in good shape.
Date of Construction: 1903
This one-story brick railroad depot has a rectangular footprint. The gable-on-hip roof features a prominent cross gable that intersects toward the northwest end. This cross gable and the large gabled dormer at the opposite end of the building feature Jacobethan design elements, specifically gable parapets. Fenestration defines the asymmetrical elevations. The front elevation includes two pedestrian entrances and three freight entrances. The original two-over-two light, double-hung wood windows are intact throughout the building. Window openings at the more formal northwest end of the building feature dressed limestone lintels and sills. Window openings at the more utilitarian southeast end of the building feature segmental soldier brick arches and stone sills. Additional character-defining features include continuous limestone sills and lintels that span the cross gable wall, the Palladian windows in each gable, very wide eaves, and historic paneled wood doors.
This building retains a very high degree of architectural integrity. It clearly conveys its historic associations and is a contributing element to the historic district.
- National Register Application
The Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers, including the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS), Texas and Pacific Railway (TP), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway (SLBM), Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), Midland Valley Railroad (MV), San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad (SAU&G), Gulf Coast Lines (GC), International-Great Northern Railroad (IGN), New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (NOTM), Missouri-Illinois Railroad (MI), as well as the small Central Branch Railway (an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south central Nebraska), and joint ventures such as the Alton and Southern Railroad (AS).
In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P and its subsidiaries, C&EI and Missouri-Illinois.
On January 8, 1980, the Union Pacific Railroad agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed approval of the merger until September 13, 1982. After the Supreme Court denied a trial to the Southern Pacific, the merger took effect on December 22, 1982. However, due to outstanding bonds of the Missouri Pacific, the merger with Union Pacific become official only on January 1, 1997.
- Missouri Pacific Railroad from Wikipedia
Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: No
Is the station/depot open to the public?: Yes
If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?:
Shops - specificall the Pleasant Hill Chamber of Commerce, a martial arts dojo, and an arts and crafts shop.
What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: Missouri Pacific
Station/Depot Web Site: Not listed
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