Southern Pacific Niles Passenger Depot (Fremont, California)

USA / California / Union City / Fremont, California / Niles Boulevard, 37592
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37592 Niles Boulevard
Fremont, CA 94536
(510) 797-4449
www.nilesdepot.org/niles/history.html

The passenger depot, and freight depot next to it, make up the Niles Depot Museum.

The "new" Niles depot featured colonnade style architecture. It was built of redwood cut in the Santa Cruz Mountains and milled in Southern Pacific sawmills. Unlike most of the other colonnade style depot the railroad built between 1901 and 1913, the columns in the Niles depot were topped by ornate carved wood decoration (the columns are topped by ornate Victorian capitals and an elaborate entablature). Of about thirty colonnade style depots built, less than half exist today and the Niles depot is the only survivor having the ornate carved wood decoration.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles_Depot_Museum
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Coordinates:   37°34'39"N   121°58'42"W

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