Union Depot opened in 1895 to serve the Chicago & West Michigan Railway, the Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Railroad. A.W. Rush and Son of Grand Rapids designed the Richardson Romanesque station. Several national political figures paused there during whistle stop campaigns. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan stopped during the first of his three unsuccessful presidential bids. The 1952 campaign brought Republican vice presidential candidate and future president Richard M. Nixon to Muskegon, as well as President Harry S Truman, who stopped on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Union Depot closed in 1971, and it was donated to Muskegon County in 1992 and restored as a visitors’ center and museum.