Baraboo | |||||||||||||
Type: | Former Chicago and North Western Railway station | ||||||||||||
Style: | Chicago and North Western Railway | ||||||||||||
Address: | 220 Lynn St., Baraboo, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||
Coordinates: | 43.4653°N -89.7419°W | ||||||||||||
Line: | Reedsburg Subdivision | ||||||||||||
Structure: | At-grade | ||||||||||||
Opened: | 1902 | ||||||||||||
Closed: | 1963 | ||||||||||||
Architect: | Frost & Granger | ||||||||||||
Architectural Style: | Romanesque Revival | ||||||||||||
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Baraboo station, otherwise known as the Baraboo Chicago & North Western Depot and Division Offices is a former railway station in Baraboo, Wisconsin, built be the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW). The depot served both passengers and freight traffic as well as housing the Madison Division offices of the C&NW. The Madison Division covered a 219mile line from Belvidere, Illinois to Medary, Wisconsin. The depot was designed by the team of Frost and Granger, who designed more than 200 depots for the C&NW. This particular depot was built in the Romanesque Revival style.[1] Passenger service to the depot ended in 1963 with the elimination of the Rochester 400. As of 2022, the Sauk County Historical Society hopes to restore the depot into a museum and community gathering space.[2] [3]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 25, 2022.