Amtrak Station (Sturtevant WI 1901)
Ex-CMStP&P, formerly located at 2904 Wisconsin Street. Sturtevant’s passenger service was discontinued by the mid 1960s but restored with the start-up of Amtrak in 1971, so that there would still be train service near Racine, which had lost its service. Most depots are long straight buildings, this one is “L” shaped. When this depot was built there were two perpendicular rail lines [Milwaukee Road and Racine, Janesville & Mississippi which became part of the Milwaukee Road in 1873] that crossed in Corliss (now Sturtevant). This depot was designed to handle both lines with the station master in the octagon area. The perimeter windows gave view of both roadbeds.
On August 14, 2006, Sturtevant’s new Amtrak station opened. CP offered a choice of razing the old building or moving it. They owned both the structure and parking lot across the tracks. Local businessmen who had purchased the Klinkert Hotel near the old depot intended to buy the adjacent station parking lot, which could only happen when the building was somehow disposed of.
Heading off demolition, the nearby Caledonia Historical Society negotiated to purchase the depot and move it out of the village to Linwood Park, and CP agreed to pay half the costs of the move. The structure was finally moved to its new home in four pieces on October 25, 2009 where it was placed on a new foundation and winterized, with restoration to be completed the next spring.
Amtrak Station (Sturtevant WI 1901)
Ex-CMStP&P, formerly located at 2904 Wisconsin Street. Sturtevant’s passenger service was discontinued by the mid 1960s but restored with the start-up of Amtrak in 1971, so that there would still be train service near Racine, which had lost its service. Most depots are long straight buildings, this one is “L” shaped. When this depot was built there were two perpendicular rail lines [Milwaukee Road and Racine, Janesville & Mississippi which became part of the Milwaukee Road in 1873] that crossed in Corliss (now Sturtevant). This depot was designed to handle both lines with the station master in the octagon area. The perimeter windows gave view of both roadbeds.
On August 14, 2006, Sturtevant’s new Amtrak station opened. CP offered a choice of razing the old building or moving it. They owned both the structure and parking lot across the tracks. Local businessmen who had purchased the Klinkert Hotel near the old depot intended to buy the adjacent station parking lot, which could only happen when the building was somehow disposed of.
Heading off demolition, the nearby Caledonia Historical Society negotiated to purchase the depot and move it out of the village to Linwood Park, and CP agreed to pay half the costs of the move. The structure was finally moved to its new home in four pieces on October 25, 2009 where it was placed on a new foundation and winterized, with restoration to be completed the next spring.