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Overview

Two earlier stations burned sometime between 1909 and World War I, and the Union Pacific Railroad used two converted boxcars as a station for a length of time into the 1920s, when the noted Los Angeles architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood was commissioned to design this linear, one-story depot, completed in 1925. The building had a primarily yellow brick exterior with randomly arranged brown bricks trimming the windows and main entryway. A belt course separated a lower brown brick surface from the upper yellow sheatihng. The building had an asymmetrical plan, covered by a long gable roof that was broken into subtly raised and lowered heights. In general, the center section was raised above two lower wings on either end. One side wing may have been used for baggage.

Alteration

According to the web site Waymarking.com. "In 1990, the Union Pacific Railroad donated the 65-year-old depot along with $35,000 to help pay the cost of moving the building to the present location. Cozad United Way, Inc., is the present owner of the building. The restoration of the building was made possible by a bequest to the United Way from the Marge Wilson estate. Thus was established the "Wilson Human Services Center.'" (See Waymarking.com, "Former Union Pacific Depot -- Cozad NE," accessed 07/02/2018.)

PCAD id: 21892