Everett Street Depot

Everett Street Depot (Milwaukee Union Station)
Everett Street Depot on an old postcard
General information
LocationWest Everett Street
between N. 2nd and N. 4th Streets
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
History
Opened1886
Closed1965
Former services
Preceding station Milwaukee Road Following station
Brookfield
toward Seattle or Tacoma
Main Line Sturtevant
toward Chicago
Wauwatosa
toward Madison
Madison Milwaukee via Watertown Terminus
Madison Milwaukee via Waukesha
Terminus Chicago Milwaukee Allis
toward Chicago
Shorewood
toward Ontonagon
Ontonagon Milwaukee Terminus

Everett Street Station, also called Milwaukee Union Station, was a railway station located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), commonly known as the Milwaukee Road. The station was located on West Everett Street between North 2nd Street and North 4th Street, and it featured a 140-foot-high clock tower—the largest in America at the time of construction. Designed by E. Townsend Mix in a "modern" functional style, the station combined the Gothic Revival style with elements drawing on Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles (such as stone archways) in an eclectic blend. Walter G. Berg gave a detailed description of the building in Buildings and Structures of American Railroads (1893).

The station faced the Fourth Ward Park (since renamed Zeidler Park), which afforded both a vantage point for viewing the station and a bucolic respite from the mechanized industrial culture of the railroad. The station served passengers from its opening in 1886 until it was replaced by Union Station (now Milwaukee Intermodal Station) on August 4, 1965. The station was damaged by fire a week after closing and razed the following year.