On June 17, 1933, the station was the site of the “Kansas City Massacre”— four police officers and gangster Frank Nash were killed in a shootout with mobsters who were attempting to free Nash from police custody. Copyright (c) 2020 Groundspeak, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A $55 million renovation, completed in 2013, restored the terminal building, converted a parking lot into a public plaza, and linked the station to the city’s light rail line.
But this is the station Amtrak has called home since the early 1970s.
Handmade of Tiffany glass, it celebrates what were considered at the time to be the nation’s three grandest train station cities: New York City, San Francisco, and St. Louis. Although Union Station remains the city’s passenger rail hub, it also serves as an event space; you can rent the 20,972-square-foot Great Hall for a mere $16,500. The third-busiest train station in the U.S., it is also a hub for regional commuter rail and city trolley lines. The station’s heart, the magnificent Main Concourse, features a four-sided Tiffany glass clock atop the information booth in the center of the room.
The murals were badly damaged from years of neglect, but have since been restored.
In 1999, the passenger area was restored; two years later, the metro region’s Trinity Railway Express commuter line began serving the station. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Admission in... View all hotels near Terminal Tower on Tripadvisor, View all restaurants near Terminal Tower on Tripadvisor. The views are great from up in the tower. It was designed by the architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, which also designed Cleveland’s Terminal Tower, another iconic American train station.
Designed by noted architect Daniel Burnam, the man responsible for Chicago Union Station, it opened in 1904. Construction of Interstate 30 in the 1950s cut off the station from the rest of downtown Fort Worth, and by 1967 passenger rail service had ceased, leaving only the office portion of the complex still operating. Today, the station continues to welcome Amtrak trains and passenger buses, as well as provide room for Oneida County officials and public event space.
It was designed by the same architects who designed Detroit’s Michigan Central Depot to replace an older station that had become woefully inadequate to serve the growing metropolis.
Today, after some two decades of redevelopment, Denver’s Union Station is again a bustling transit hub for the city, including Amtrak passenger service, city bus lines, as well as commuter and light rail lines linking downtown with the University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver International Airport.