Union Station
- Architect
- Warren and Wetmore
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Houston, TX
- Collection
- neoclassical
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Union Station was designed in the Neoclassical style by Warren and Wetmore, the firm famed for Grand Central Terminal in New York. As a former train station, it gave downtown Houston a grand civic street presence, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the style
The station's Neoclassical design gave a working train depot the formal grandeur of a civic monument.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Warren and Wetmore, the architects of Union Station, are best known for designing Grand Central Terminal in New York.
significance
Union Station is a National Register of Historic Places listed place.
nearby
- Annunciation Church
- Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building
- United States Customhouse
- Christ Church Cathedral
- 1910 Harris County Courthouse
- Scanlan Building