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It was located at 419 through 435 West Broad Street, between Stewart and Roberts streets, on the site that is now listed as 435 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It hosted the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and the Southern Railway. While the term, union station, in the United States generally implies a station that hosts all train companies stopping in a city, the Central of Georgia and the Savannah and Atlanta Railway used other stations in Savannah.[1]Table of ContentsArchitecture[edit]Significance and history[edit]Named trains[edit]Current use of the site[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]Architecture[edit]  Exterior view of Union Station, 1904It was designed by Columbia, South Carolina architect Frank Pierce Milburn and completed in 1902 at a cost of $150,000.  It was an example of Spanish Renaissance and Elizabethian styles.  The main feature of the structure was an octagonal rotunda which measured 80 feet in diameter and served as the general waiting room.  Since most of the station’s history took place under the South’s Jim Crow segregation system, a colored waiting room was assigned to African-Americans.[2]The exterior walls were made of pressed brick with granite and terra cotta trimmings.  The building also had two towers.Significance and history[edit]Many visitors disembarked trains onto West Broad Street.[3]  They brought enough business for theaters, bars, stores to open in that section of town.  For decades, the Union Station and its surroundings became known as the economic and cultural center for Black Savannah.[4]In August 1962 the remaining passenger trains were shifted to the new Atlantic Coast Line station on the periphery of Savannah, which remains in use today by Amtrak. A year later, Union Station was demolished to make room for Interstate 16 and what would eventually be known as the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange.[5]Named trains[edit]Several named trains made stops at the station:OperatorsNamed trainsNorthern destinationSouthern destinationAtlantic Coast Line Railroad (train continued later under Amtrak)ChampionNew York, New YorkSt. Petersburg, Florida and Miami, FloridaAtlantic Coast Line RailroadEvergladesWashington, D.C.Jacksonville, FloridaAtlantic Coast Line RailroadHavana SpecialNew York, New YorkTampa, Florida and Miami, FloridaAtlantic Coast Line Railroad (train continued later under Amtrak)Palmetto (ACL train)New York, New YorkterminusSeaboard Air Line RailroadPalmlandNew York, New YorkTampa, Florida and Miami, FloridaSeaboard Air Line Railroad (train continued later under Amtrak)Silver MeteorNew York, New YorkMiami, FloridaSeaboard Air Line RailroadSunlandWashington, D.C. and Portsmouth, VirginiaTampa, FloridaSeaboard Air Line RailroadTidewaterPortsmouth, VirginiaJacksonville, FloridaSouthern RailwaySkyland SpecialAsheville, North CarolinaJacksonville, FloridaCurrent use of the site[edit]An Enmark service station (405 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd) is located nearby what was once the site of the Union Station.The Savannah Visitor Information Center is in the former Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed, located nearby, at 301 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.See also[edit]References[edit]^ Official Guide of the Railways, August 1936, Index of Stations^ The Savannah Press, December 13, 1900^ Revitalizing MLK Boulevard: Enough business to go around?, Christian Livermore, Savannah Morning News, May 20, 2007^ The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, The New Georgia Encyclopedia, History & Archeology^ Acosta, Ruben A. ‘Savannah\u201fs Union Station: Architecture and the Gateway in the South’ Master’s Thesis, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2010Coordinates: 32\u00b004\u203226\u2033N 81\u00b005\u203256\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff32.074\u00b0N 81.099\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 32.074; -81.099"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki4\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki4\/2018\/04\/28\/savannah-union-station-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Savannah Union Station – Wikipedia"}}]}]