In 1890, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad built a new passenger depot on this site to replace an earlier wood frame building. The structure consisted of three separate red brick buildings, including a baggage house, a waiting room and ticket office, and an express house, all under a 197 foot tile roof. This classic depot was the terminus of the fabled Millionaire Special, the train used by wealthy Chicago owners of Lake Geneva mansions. Its long waiting platform, later covered by a full canopy, could handle the unloading of a 12 coach train. The depot was later painted green and white. Passenger service ended on August 11, 1975, the depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, August 15, 1986, the historic Lake Geneva Railroad Depot was razed.