The headhouse of the new union Depot at Saint Paul was thrown open for public inspection last Sunday. Thousands of enthusiastic Saint Paul lights visited the station and admired the beauty of its interior decorations. The cost of the headhouse was $1,000,000. It will take another 4 years to make the other necessary changes including the placing of the new tracks. The total cost of this work together with the cost of the headhouse will be about $11,000,000.
New Ulm Review
April 7th, 1920
The first Union Depot in St. Paul, completed in 1881, burned in 1915. Construction on the new station started in 1917. The First World War got in the way and the building was finally completed in 1923. Back in the day, the depot saw traffic from nine passenger train railroads. Service at the depot ended shortly after Amtrack took over passenger service in 1971.The United States Postal Service occupied the rear of the building and a few businesses made use of the head house after that. After a $243,000,000 renovation was completed in 2012 station re-opened to the public. The first Amtrak train to service the renovated Saint Paul Union Depot was the westbound Empire Builder that arrived about an hour late on May 7, 2014.
