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Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station (now Lee County History Center)

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now Lee County History Center
1910. South of Ave. H at 9th St.

If this long, low, red brick station with a hiproofed tower were stuccoed, it would read as a Mission Revival building. Having been built in red brick, its references seem to be to the earlier Richardsonian Romanesque, coupled with an intense look at northern Italian rural architecture. Its 1975 conversion to museum use has been well carried out.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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What's Nearby

The Fort Cafe
Fox Theater
Fort Madison
Lee County Savings Bank Building
Union Presbyterian Church

Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station (now Lee County History Center)", [Fort Madison, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-ME229.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 99-100.

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