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These Walls: Santa Fe Station in OKC
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THE JOURNAL RECORD
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February 25, 2008
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In its lifetime, the Santa Fe Station in downtown Oklahoma City
has seen trains, no trains and then trains again.
The station, at 100 S. E.K. Gaylord Blvd., was built in 1934 in
an art deco style.
The 20,685-square-foot station was a stop for passenger routes,
including a Chicago-to-Houston Amtrak line.
But the current structure is not the first train station at the
site. Sometime before 1889, a wooden station was constructed and
called Oklahoma Station.
Accounts show that around 1900 the wooden station was replaced
with a more permanent structure until it was destroyed by fire in
1930.
Passenger service continued at the station until 1979, when
passenger service to-and-from Oklahoma City ...