The station building was a wood structure built in Great Britain, that had a slate mansard roof and a little tower with a clock and a dome on the top.

[3] When the Central Station was opened, the tracks ran from north to south directly alongside what was then the shores of the Río de la Plata.

The modern station building, built in wood, was brought from Great Britain by entrepreneur William Wheelwright, although it had originally been intended to be used in India (then a British colony).

Chief Inspector and his other two inspectors could use the entire platform as their officesA sudden economic and population boom led the new President of Argentina, Julio Roca, to commission the development in 1881 of an ambitious port to supplement the recently developed facilities at La Boca, in Buenos Aires' southside.

The project required the reclaiming of over 200 hectares (500 acres) of underwater land from the Rio de la Plata off the station.

The next day, the company built some wood shacks to sell tickets as a replacement of the destroyed station, but they were removed by the Government of the city.

On March 19 the National Government ordered to remove all tracks from Casa Amarilla to Retiro, also forbidding Central Station was reconstructed.