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This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. The one-story brick building is located at 412 East 7th Street and was designed as a Midwestern Modern architecture structure by Warren Corman and Warren Jones, graduates from the University of Kansas. Construction began on the depot in 1955 and was completed in 1956. It was part of the Eastern Line of the Eastern Division in the First District of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system. A duplication of this image can be seen in Kansas Memory item: 218046.
Date: 1956
Item Number: 440240
Call Number: FK2.D4 L.74 ATSF *6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440240
Built Environment - Architectural Style - Moderne
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related - Depot
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Depots
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1950s - 1956
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Transportation - Railroads - Depots
Type of Material - Photographs
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