Northern Pacific Depot -- Downtown Bismarck Historic District, Bismarck ND
N 46° 48.319 W 100° 47.139
14T E 363753 N 5185078
The Northern Pacific RR Depot is both a Contributing Structure to the Downtown Bismarck Historic District, and a National Register property in its own right.
Waymark Code: WMJZP9
Location: North Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 01/22/2014
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Blasterz are Texans, and are used to seeing lots of wonderful Spanish Mission Revival buildings scattered around the Southwest, but we never expected to see one in predominately Scandinavian-influenced North Dakota!
From the Downtown Bismarck Historic District Nominating Form:
32BL16: Northern Pacific Railway Depot at 411 East Main Avenue
Previously Listed/Contributing
The Northern Pacific Railway Depot is between Main Avenue and the railway tracks, surrounded by open parking areas. It was constructed by the railway in 1900 and 1901, replacing an earlier facility at the same site. Designed in a locally-unusual Mission Revival style by the noted St. Paul architectural firm of Charles Reed and Alan Stem, the structure has been a downtown landmark since its completion and is noteworthy for its relatively-early use of structural concrete walls. It was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The depot displays a three-part structural mass, with a two-story gabled central core flanked by long, single story wings to the east and west. The wings are also gabled, with lower hipped extensions at the ends. The north elevation of the central mass is marked by prominent corner towers and a portico of Tuscan columns; further detail is provided by a number of patterned, terra-cotta medallions. A sense of texture was imposed on the poured-concrete exterior walls by abrading the surface and by adding marble chips to the aggregate. Other stylistic exterior features include Mission-shaped parapet walls, red tile roofmg and an arched first-floor fenestration pattern suggestive of an arcade."
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