Minneapolis Great Northern Depot

The older Union Depot was razed; today, that site is used for loading docks by the central downtown Minneapolis Post Office.

It was constructed at the height of the City Beautiful movement, at a time when Minneapolis was striving to revive the decaying Bridge Square area.

[2] Frost had also supervised the construction of the Navy Pier in Chicago and the Maine State Building at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

The area lay vacant and was adjacent to the Berman Buckskin building and the Chicago Great Western railway freight warehouse.

It was the destination for trains of several railroads that served Minneapolis, including, The named trains Great Northern Empire Builder, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Twin Cities Zephyr, Chicago and North Western Twin Cities 400, and Northern Pacific North Coast Limited either passed through or terminated at the Depot.

An aerial photograph of the depot in the 1950s
Passengers waiting at Minneapolis Great Northern Depot in April 1971
Arrivals and departures at Minneapolis Great Northern Depot in April 1971, weeks before Amtrak's takeover of all passenger operations at the station.