page_title: Santa Fe Depot (San Diego)
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Santa Fe Depot (San Diego) / References
caption_attribution_description: English: San Diego's original Victorian-style railway depot, built in 1887 for the en:California Southern Railroad Company, is razed to make way for the opening of the new Santa Fe Depot in 1915.
context_page_description: The Santa Fe Depot in San Diego, California, is a union station built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the small Victorian-style structure erected in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company. The Spanish Colonial Revival style station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its architecture, particularly the signature twin domes, is often echoed in the design of modern buildings in Downtown San Diego. A wing now houses the downtown branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
  The Santa Fe Depot officially opened on March 8, 1915, to accommodate visitors to the Panama-California Exposition. The depot was completed during a particularly optimistic period in the City's development, and represents the battle waged by the City of San Diego to become the West Coast terminus of the Santa Fe Railway system's transcontinental railroad, a fight that was ultimately lost to the City of Los Angeles. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  In its heyday, the facility not only handled Santa Fe traffic but also that of the San Diego and Arizona Railway and San Diego Electric Railway.
caption: The clock tower of the original Santa Fe depot at Bay and Broadway is pulled to the ground by a steel cable attached to two yard locomotives as part of the grand opening celebration on March 7.
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