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Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum posted two photos with the comment:
Today’s featured depot is the Union Depot in Muskegon 🚂
Muskegon’s Union Depot opened in 1895 and served three railroads: the Chicago & West Michigan, the Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, and the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon. Local businessmen had worked hard to bring the station to life—offering financial incentives to the railroads and securing a prime location along Muskegon Lake, near the Central Wharf.
This depot is a stunning example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It was built from red brick and variegated Jacobsville sandstone, and originally topped with a slate-covered hipped roof. The building’s interior was finished in oak and black ash woodwork, steel-paneled ceilings, and ornate fireplaces.
Over the years, several national political figures stopped here during whistle-stop campaigns—including William Jennings Bryan in 1896, Richard Nixon in 1952, and President Harry Truman campaigning for Adlai Stevenson that same year.
Union Depot served as Muskegon’s main rail terminal for decades, but in the 1990s all rail service to this station ceased. The depot was later donated to Muskegon County in 1992 and fully restored.
Today, the beautifully preserved building serves as the Muskegon County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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I could not find an older topo map that showed the railroad names in the above description. But I know that the GR&I was bought by the Pennsy. And given the name Chicago & West Michigan, it must have become PM because they had the route from Chicago up along the lake shore. So, Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon must have become the GTW.
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| 1930/30 Lake Harbor Quad @ 48,000 and 1930/60 Muskegon Quad @ 62,500 |
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