After the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway reorganized in 1900, they built a series of new depots along their line.

In 2010, the Lansing Board of Water & Light began construction of a powerplant adjacent to the depot, and included a full restoration of the station in the project.

[5] The Lansing Grand Trunk Western station is a single story, rectangular Jacobethan style red-brick building on a gray ashlar foundation.

The main entrance is housed in a two-story, ten-foot square brick tower which is topped by a crenelated parapet.

At one end of the building is a waiting platform, covered with a gable roof supported by wooden posts.