Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake

Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	South of W. Railroad St., between Lake and Michigan Aves., Storm Lake, Iowa
Coordinates	42°38′35″N 95°12′06″W / 42.64306°N 95.20167°WCoordinates: 42°38′35″N 95°12′06″W / 42.64306°N 95.20167°W
Built	1915
Architect	E.E. Bihl
Architectural style	Prairie School Tudor Revival
MPS	Advent & Development of Railroads in Iowa MPS
NRHP Reference #	90001300[1]
Added to NRHP	September 6, 1990

The Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake, also known as the Storm Lake Depot, is an historic building located in Storm Lake, Iowa, United States. The Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, an Illinois Central Railroad (IC) subsidiary, built the first tracks through town in 1870. They also built a two-story frame combination freight and passenger depot the same year. The present depot is a second generation IC structure built of brick. The building's architectural style is Prairie School with Tudor Revival elements in the dormer and canopy ends. It was designed by IC architect E.E. Bihl, and it is similar to the railroad's depots in Flossmoor, Illinois and Fort Dodge, Iowa.^[2] The new passenger depot was completed in August, 1915, and the old depot was re-purposed for a dedicated freight depot. It was torn down sometime before 1948. Passenger service remained high during the 1910s and 1920s, with the decline accelerating after World War II, and it ended all together in the late 1960s. While freight trains continue to use the IC's tracks, the depot has been abandoned. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Tracv Ann Cunning. "Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-02-05.