Cheyenne Depot Museum

The 1887 Union Pacific Depot at the south end of Capitol Avenue is the most architecturally significant building in Cheyenne — a Romanesque Revival sandstone palace of arched windows and a clock tower, designed by Henry Van Brunt and listed as a National Historic Landmark. Trains stopped serving the depot in 1971 and the building was restored as a museum in 2004.

Inside, the main gallery covers the history of the transcontinental railroad in Wyoming, the construction of the line, and the building of Cheyenne as a Union Pacific town. There are working signal boards, a model railroad, and a tongue-in-cheek "depot bar" using the old ticket counter. The plaza outside hosts farmers' markets on summer Saturdays and concerts in July. Closed Mondays.

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The depot was the western showpiece of the Union Pacific's transcontinental line, built to impress passengers stepping off the train into Wyoming Territory. Henry Van Brunt and Frank Howe, the architects, also designed the Boston Athenaeum — and the same Romanesque Revival sandstone vocabulary they used in Massachusetts shows up here in red Wyoming stone.