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Ashton Depot (Fort Worth Union Passenger Station; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Station)

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1899; 1938 renovated. 1501 Jones St.

This fine Beaux-Arts classical structure has red and white stone quoins, striated horizontal banding, stone-trimmed thermal windows set in red brick walls, and an expansive scale even though it is not a large building. As a testament to the role of transportation in the Southwest, painted north windows provided a narrative of the history of westward movement. In 1938 the building was renovated, an entrance portico removed, and the interiors updated. Shirlee and Taylor Gandy have preserved the station as the Ashton Depot, a special events location.

One block north at 1401 Jones Street is the University of Texas at Arlington Fort Worth Education Center, built in 1938 as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Freight Station. It provided cold storage and other services for rail clients. Decorative brickwork and intricate detailing give the freight station a scale and presence as delightful as that of the passenger station. The architect is not known, though the contractor was Quisle and Andrews.

The Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center (2002, Gideon Toal; 1001 Jones) combines bus, Amtrak, taxi, and trolley services. Waiting rooms surround a clock-towered facility that elicits Prairie School, Craftsman, and modernist references in a false historicism that upstages the real historic rail stations down the block.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Ashton Depot (Fort Worth Union Passenger Station; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Station)", [Fort Worth, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FW15.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 205-205.

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