Santa Fe Depot, Gainesville
Lakes Trail Region
605 East California
Gainesville, TX 76240
Built in 1902, the long rectangular red-brick Santa Fe Depot, which is now used as an event center, provided a shady space for passengers, freight, and railroad offices, as well as a Harvey House restaurant—part of America’s first chain dining establishment and dedicated to the needs of travelers.
While the station’s design was standardized by the railroad industry, it also indicates the importance of Gainesville as a significant transportation center through the 1940s. It is one of the city’s least-altered historic commercial structures of its period and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Santa Fe Depot, Gainesville
605 East California
Gainesville, TX 76240