Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot

Lynwood
Lynwood Depot at its original location on Long Beach Boulevard, April 1980
General information
LocationLynwood, California
Owned byPacific Electric Railway
Line(s)PE West Santa Ana Branch
History
Openedc. 1905
ClosedMay 24, 1958
Rebuilt1917
Original companyLos Angeles Inter-Urban Electric Railway
Former services
Preceding station Pacific Electric Following station
Modjeska Park
towards Pacific Electric Building
 Santa Ana Lugo
towards Santa Ana SP Depot
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot is located in California
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot is located in the United States
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot
Coordinates33°55′32″N 118°12′34″W / 33.92556°N 118.20944°W / 33.92556; -118.20944[a]
Built1917
Architectural styleMission Revival
NRHP reference No.74000524
Added to NRHPSeptember 25, 1974[1]

The Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot is a former railway station of the Pacific Electric Railway, located in Lynwood, California. Originally in service on the Santa Ana Line, the station building was moved after the construction of the Century Freeway and now resides in downtown Lynwood.

History

The Lynwood station shelter, c. 1916.

The first Lynwood station was established by the Los Angeles Inter-Urban Electric Railway in 1905 as part of the West Santa Ana Branch. It was little more than a simple shed adjacent to sugar beet fields at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard.[a][2] The line and station was folded into the new Pacific Electric Railway in 1911. In 1917,[3] the Lynwood Company constructed a new Depot designed in the Mission Revival style by architect, Bernard Maybeck for the railroad in exchange for other nearby grade and level crossing improvements. Interurban service was discontinued in 1958 with the rest of the Santa Ana Line.

The Depot building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1974. It was also catalogued by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1908.[3] The building was acquired by the City of Lynwood as a gift from Southern Pacific (successors to the PE). When the Century Freeway was constructed through Lynwood in the late 1980s, the Depot building was moved to its current location at 3780 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the entrance to Lynwood City Park.[b][4] The modern Long Beach Boulevard station serves the Los Angeles Metro Rail C Line light rail near Lynwood Depot's original location.

See also

  • Bellflower station — another existing PE station building on the Santa Ana Branch
  • Watts Station — another existing PE station building listed on the NRHP

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b Original location 33°55′32″N 118°12′34″W / 33.92556°N 118.20944°W / 33.92556; -118.20944
  2. ^ Modern location 33°55′42″N 118°12′02″W / 33.928295°N 118.200622°W / 33.928295; -118.200622
Citations
  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "1981 Inventory of Pacific Electric Routes" (PDF). Caltrans. February 1982. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  4. ^ City of Lynwood; Johnson, Ilu; Diaz, Chris (2012). Lynwood. Arcadia Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 978-0738588896.

Media related to Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot at Wikimedia Commons


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This California train station-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This Los Angeles County, California–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.