page_title: River Station (Los Angeles)
section_title: First station (1876−1887)
hierarchical_section_title: River Station (Los Angeles) / History / First station (1876−1887)
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior view of the second River Station of the Southern Pacific — on San Fernando Road north of Chinatown in Los Angeles (ca.1919). The 1887 brick Romanesque Revival style building has an arcade of windows along the street facade. It replaced the first River Station, an 1876 wooden building on the site. The second station was demolished in 1901. The site of the former River Stations is in "The Cornfield" area of Los Angeles State Historic Park. Credits http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/2397
context_page_description: River Station was a Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station location, southwest of the Los Angeles River on San Fernando Road and north of Downtown, in Los Angeles, California. The site is within the present day Los Angeles State Historic Park.
context_section_description: The station was opened following the Southern Pacific's acquisition of the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad in 1873 and the railroad's construction of line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles. The first River Station was a wooden structure built in 1876. The two-story station had both women's and men's waiting rooms and later had a hotel and restaurants added to it. It was the arrival station of many migrants drawn during the land boom of the mid-1880s
caption: The second River Station (1887−1901).
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