Fayetteville, Arkansas station of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
The Old Frisco Depot, 550 West Dickson, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is the third iteration of the station that served the northwest Arkansas town beginning in a time when railroads were the only connection between this rural area and the rest of the country. [1]
After the first station burned in 1897, a brick depot in the Victorian style was built to replace it. In 1925 that station was enlarged and remodeled into a Spanish mission style. According to articles in the Fayetteville Daily Democrat from the period, the waiting room was widened to serve the growing passenger traffic from six passenger trains stopping daily at the Washington County station.
Distinctive features of the depot include stucco walls and belfry-like cornices of the Pueblo Revival/Mission style that was popular during the era of the building’s construction.
The last passenger train stopped in Fayetteville in September 1965, and the building stood abandoned thereafter.
The depot, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, currently houses a restaurant. [2]
The measured plans presented here were created in 1994 by University of Arkansas School of Architecture student Paul N. Gajda under the sponsorship of faculty member Elam L. Denham as an entry in the National Park Service’s Charles E. Peterson Prize, which annually recognizes the best set of measured drawings prepared to Historic American Buildings Survey standards and donated to HABS by students.
1.All details of this article, unless otherwise footnoted, are from Historic American Buildings Survey Call Number: HABS ARK,72-FAYV,4- Survey number: HABS AR-50
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisco_Depot