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was hired to design the new depot at Needles, which combined a railroad station, dining room, and hotel into a single massive structure. Opened on April 3, 1908, it cost $ 250,000 (equivalent to $ 6,000,000 in 2023) to construct. The building was originally 518 feet (158 m) long and 98 feet
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The hotel and restaurant closed in 1949 as passenger traffic declined. The ATSF converted the interior for office space and baggage use in the 1950s, and demolished the eastern third of the building in 1961. In 1988, the railroad abandoned El Garces entirely; the city purchased the building in 1999
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The ATSF continued to use the structure and made renovations in the 1950s. The dining room was subdivided for office space, while the kitchen was converted to a baggage room, and a modern air conditioning system was installed. In 1961, the railroad demolished the east part of El Garces (which had
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was replaced by a newsstand, and the lunch room was remodeled. The lunch room was remodeled again in 1922, with the original painted concrete floor replaced with mosaic tiles, and a third time in 1927. El Garces was used to feed soldiers on troop trains during World War II, and
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met at Needles and opened a station there in 1883. The Southern Pacific sold its line to the ATSF the next year, and Needles became a major waypoint on the ATSF route to Los Angeles. After the original station was destroyed by fire in 1906, the ATSF built El Garces – a large
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formerly had a ticket office, baggage room, and offices on the first floor) to build a parking lot, reducing the length to 365 feet (111 m). Although passenger facilities were now limited, the station was served by trains including the
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The city ultimately obtained $ 9 million in FTA funds and $ 2.4 million in state and county funds for the project, which was narrowed to focus on renovating part of the first floor for transportation use by
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frequented the hotel during war games in the surrounding desert. Faced with declining patronage as automobiles and airlines replaced long-distance train travel, the Harvey Company closed El Garces in 1949.
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The city-developed plan involved reuse of El Garces for its original purposes: a hotel, restaurant, and railroad station. Construction began on March 7, 2007. The project was managed by the owners of the
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In 1993, the Friends of the El Garces was formed in response to the possibility of demolition. A fire in 1995 damaged part of the former kitchen area. In 1999, the city purchased the structure from
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structure containing a Harvey House hotel, restaurant, and train station – in 1908. It was the "crown jewel" of the Harvey House network, and among the first train stations made of concrete.
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The ATSF saw the construction of a new station as an opportunity to promote Needles as a tourist destination (and thus bring passenger revenue to the railroad). Architect
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in 1984) continued passenger service to Needles. The ATSF abandoned El Garces in 1988 and moved its offices to a former railroad medical building slightly to the south.
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and retrofitted the depot with a second story with hotel rooms to house passengers and Harvey House staff. The station was destroyed by fire on September 6, 1906.
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to moderate the daytime heat and nighttime chill of the desert, and was the first ATSF station constructed with concrete. The hotel was named
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and reopened it as the El Garces Intermodal Transportation Facility in 2014. In 2016, Amtrak opened a dedicated waiting room for
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Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California for the Year Ending December 31, 1889
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took over intercity passenger service in the United States on May 1, 1971. Amtrak kept just a single train – the combined
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The ATSF soon believed that the SP would redirect traffic away from the Needles interchange in favor of its longer
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Branding the Southwest: A Preservation Plan for the Fred Harvey Houses (Masters Thesis)
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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California
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Donaldson, Wayne; Magno, Eileen; Harrington, Page (January 2002).
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Needles, CA – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
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to Needles, where it met the westward-expanding ATSF subsidiary
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Buildings and structures in San Bernardino County, California
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El Garces Intermodal Transportation Facility in July 2014
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style, but Wilson instead designed El Garces in the
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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El Garces Hotel
A two-story white hotel with a grass lawn surrounded by palm trees
Needles, California
34°50′27″N 114°36′20″W / 34.84083°N 114.60556°W / 34.84083; -114.60556
BNSF Railway
Southern Transcon
side
island platform
Victor Valley Transit Authority
Needles Area Transit
Amtrak
NDL

Amtrak
Barstow
Los Angeles
Southwest Chief
Kingman
Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Goffs
Los Angeles
Main Line
Topock
Chicago
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Needles, California
Francis W. Wilson
Classical Revival
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