[1] It was designed by Columbia, South Carolina, architect Frank Pierce Milburn and completed in 1902 at a cost of $150,000.

The main feature of the structure was an octagonal rotunda which measured 80 feet in diameter and served as the general waiting room.

Since most of the station's history took place under the South's Jim Crow segregation system, a colored waiting room was assigned to African-Americans.

A year later, Union Station was demolished to make room for Interstate 16 and what would eventually be known as the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange.

The Savannah Visitor Information Center is in the former Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed, located nearby, at 301 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.