Pueblo's Union Depot

Pueblo's Union Depot was built between eighteen eighty-nine and eighteen ninety as a monument to the city's ambitions as a rail crossroads. Major railroads converged here, among them the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; the Denver and Rio Grande; the Missouri Pacific; and the Colorado and Southern. At its peak, many passenger trains a day moved through this Romanesque Revival building, whose clock tower became the defining skyline feature of southern Colorado's largest industrial city.

Pueblo was sometimes called the Pittsburgh of the West, and this depot was the gateway through which its steel workers, miners, and cattle ranchers arrived. Passenger rail service ended in nineteen seventy-one with the Amtrak transition. The building fell into disuse, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has undergone periodic restoration efforts since.

The clock tower still stands above the rail yards.