Hello all, Here is another photograph of the Frisco depot in Augusta, Kansas. Take care, Rich Ship it on the Frisco!
Please see the following link for a trackside and street side view of the Augusta, KS depot. http://www.denverrails.com/db/attgallery.cfm?attr_id=1610 The depot's agent or operator bay faces north northwest. This was a train order office and the mast for the train order signal is still in place in front of the operator's bay. Augusta is on the Frisco's Wichita Subdivision, mile post 484.0. Please see http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...=X3sJoTA1_djnO5Ipicob8Q&cbp=11,109.28,,0,4.87 The depot address is 628 State Street. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
Greetings, I work for William Morris Associates, Architects, and I am researching information on the Frisco Depot in Augusta, KS, in hopes of preserving and restoring it. Does anyone have drawings/blueprints, etc. for Frisco Depots? To be a little more specific, I am looking for single storey, brick depots. And/or Does anyone have drawings/blueprints, etc. specifically of the Frisco Depot in Augusta, Ks?...or know where we could find drawings/blueprints, etc.? Thanks in Advance! Annette
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway depot, Augusta, Kansas This photograph shows the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company depot in Augusta, Kansas. The combination depot features a passenger waiting room, a central office and a freight-baggage room. The one-story red brick structure is located along the Frisco, Northern Division, Wichita Subdivision mile post 484.0. On November 20, 2010 the depot was listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places. Date: 1956 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/97091/page/1 Kansas Memory Web Site, Kansas Historical Society
Wonder what the old concrete foundation in the foreground was for? I can't make out anything in that location on the 1923 Sanborn map. And, it looks too close to the track center line to be non-railroad related? I reckon it could have been a trackside industry. Best Regards,
Still exists and is used as Augusta’s Welcome Center. Frisco Depot-exists-Augusta Night time picture is attached.
Augusta, KS Frisco depot's history. National and State Registers of Historic Places Kansas Historical Society Augusta, KS Frisco depot. 618 State Street Augusta, Butler County, KS Listed in State Register 11/20/2010 Architect: The Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company Category: rail-related The St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Line built its first depot in Augusta in 1880, but that building burned in 1909. Plans for a new depot were immediately drawn up, and it closely resembled one of Frisco's six standard combination depots with a passenger waiting area at one end and a freight room at the opposite end. A detached baggage building was erected immediately east of the depot in 1917, and the two buildings were joined together under a single roof in the 1930s. Passenger service ended in 1960, and Frisco abandoned the building in 1984. It was nominated for its association with local transportation history.