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Property Features
Commercial vernacular style with granite block exterior, tile roof, large overhang, and large purlin brackets.
The Wisconsin Central Depot is a one-story brick building with a hip roof covered with clay tile. The wide overhanging eaves of the building are supported by large knee-brace brackets. The building has a raised stone foundation and brick walls. The openings are boarded up. The depot is in poor condition.
The small, but elegant, building is typical of turn of the twentieth century railroad depots and has most of its historic features intact.
At one time the railroad was the most important transportation link in the city and played a major role in the development of the potato trade and granite industry in the city. This depot, long wanted in the community, was built at the height of railroad importance in the state.
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