Houston, TEXAS - Southern Pacific Grand Central Station

Description: Houston, TEXAS - Southern Pacific Grand Central Station - 1934: A series of Grand Central Station buildings served Houston’s rail traffic from the late 1880s until 1959. After the Civil War, the HTC dramatically expanded its track mileage. With Texas rail mileage growing rapidly, the Southern Pacific Railroad acquired the Houston and Texas Central Railway in 1883 and by 1887 constructed a three-story brick Grand Central Station to replace Texas Central Depot. On September 1, 1934, a new passenger depot (shown here) opened as a joint project between the city of Houston and Southern Pacific Railroad. The venture, at a cost of more than $4 million, also included improvements to city streets and Buffalo Bayou. Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick designed the station in a modern Art Deco style, with an exterior of Texas Cordova cream-colored limestone set on a base of Texas pink granite. The spacious main waiting room had a forty-one-foot-high ceiling, marble and terrazzo floor, walls with marble. The station’s heyday of the 1930s, however, dwindled during the next twenty-five years as air and auto travel diminished the role of railroads for the traveling public. Grand Central Station served approximately twenty-eight trains daily in 1934. In 1959 that number dropped to four trains per day. Grand Central Station closed that year, and a much smaller depot, operated by the Southern Pacific, opened at 902 Washington Avenue in the fall of 1959 and still served Amtrak traffic in the 2010s. The Grand Central Station building was sold to the federal government in 1959 and subsequently demolished. The main Houston post office was constructed at the site. This Linen Era postcard, published in 1934, is in good condition. Genuine Curteich-Chicago. "C.T. Art Colortone” No.4A-H1422. Seawall Specialty Co. Houston, Texas.

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