Las_Vegas_station_(New_Mexico)

Las Vegas station (New Mexico)

Las Vegas station (New Mexico)

Amtrak train station in Las Vegas, New Mexico

For stations in Las Vegas, Nevada, see Las Vegas station (Nevada) and Las Vegas station (Brightline West).

Las Vegas station is an Amtrak train station at Railroad Avenue and Lincoln Street in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Built in 1899, the two-story brick station building was designed in the Spanish Mission style and features a red tile roof, ornate metal brackets and a curving parapet. The station was renovated in 2000, when approximately $1.2 million was secured from federal, state and private sources. It reopened as the Las Vegas Intermodal Facility and now houses a passenger waiting room and the city's Visitor Center.[4]

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The station is near the Castañeda Hotel, a former hotel built by Fred Harvey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.[5] The hotel's architects were Frederick Roehrig and A. Reinsch. The hotel is the oldest Mission Revival Style building in the state of New Mexico, opening for business on January 17, 1899.[2]

The station and former hotel are contributing properties to the Railroad Avenue Historic District.

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See also

Bibliography

  • Federal Writers' Project (1940). New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State. Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission. ISBN 9781623760304. Retrieved November 9, 2021.

References

  1. [1]
    Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 96.
  2. [2]
    "The California-Chicago flyer from..." The Las Vegas Daily Optic. January 17, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved November 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. [3]
    "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of New Mexico" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  4. [4]
    "Las Vegas Station". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  5. [5]
    La Castaneda Hotel – Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation Archived 2011-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
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