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The depot is a designated official Whitewater Landmark. It has been the location of the Whitewater Historical Society's museum since 1974.
Jennings designed this robust passenger depot sometime between 1885 and 1893, during his stint as architect for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company (reincorporated and renamed in 1927 to include “and Pacific Railroad Company”). Its design somewhat echoes those by H. H. Richardson. The foundation of buff-colored stone is rusticated and rock-faced to convey a sense of weight. Above the sill line, Jennings used rugged quoins to define the corners, windows, and doors. He established a contrast in color and texture by setting the quoins against panels of smooth red brick and used slender, even delicate wooden braces to support the eaves overhead. The hipped roof, with its wide overhangs, reasserts the sense of mass. Cross-gables with bartizans of rough-cut stone, trefoils, and patterned brick adorn the roof. All of these traits--rugged weightiness, spare ornamentation, polychromy, and a sense of fortification--certainly show Richardson’s influence.
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301 West Whitewater Street
13000376
Located in Whitewater, Walworth County
NW SIDE OF RR TRACKS, DUE S OF KRONKE ST
5995
Located in Sun Prairie, Dane County
