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The Las Cruces Depot, built in 1910, is a county seat style Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe building with standard brick, symmetrical-gable roofed passenger areas, parapets on the edges of the roof, and waiting rooms on either side of the agent's bay. Depot size was determined by the size of the town so that it could accommodate that town's rail traffic. At the peak of the building is the famous ATSF symbol adopted in 1901, uniquely embedded permanently in the stucco rather than painted on the sides as on most other depots. Passenger service ended there in 1968, freight service lasted until 1988, and after the ATSF donated the depot to the City of Las Cruces a few years later, it was converted into a museum in 2004.
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Las Cruces, New Mexico · United States
