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The site is the block immediately west of Five Points MARTA station. Opening in 1930, the third Union Station served the Georgia Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line (previously the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad), and Louisville and Nashville (previously the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway). It replaced earlier stations on the ...
Terminal Station was the larger of two principal train stations in downtown Atlanta, Union Station being the other. Opening in 1905, Terminal Station served Southern Railway , Seaboard Air Line , Central of Georgia (including the Nancy Hanks to Savannah ), and the Atlanta and West Point .
Atlanta's first Union Station, also known as Union Depot (1853–1864) was the original depot of Atlanta, Georgia. It was designed by architect Edward A. Vincent . It stood in the middle of State Square , the city's main square at the time, where Wall Street now is between Pryor Street and Central Avenue.
The building was built in 1900 at the intersection of Forsyth Street and Walton Street in the Fairlie-Poplar district of downtown Atlanta. [1] [2] Around 1936, an Art Deco facade was added to the building. [1] Today, the building stands as one of the oldest commercial buildings in the district. [1]
The Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building (shorter form King Federal Building) is a building in Atlanta, Georgia. It was completed in 1933 in classical style for the United States Postal Service, and is now used as office accommodation by the United States Federal Government. It is included in the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
Its terminus in Atlanta was located at the current site of Underground Atlanta and it was the location of the railroad's historic Atlanta Zero Mile Post. [4] The Western and Atlantic was leased to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway in 1890, which was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1957.
To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 (U of Georgia Press, 2004). Dyer, Thomas G. (1999). Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6116-0. Egerton, John. "Days of Hope and Horror: Atlanta After World War II."
Peachtree station, the current Amtrak station serving Atlanta; Terminal Station (Atlanta), demolished in 1972; Atlanta Union Station Atlanta Union Station (1853), burned in the Battle of Atlanta; Atlanta Union Station (1871) Atlanta Union Station (1930), demolished in 1972