1908 UNION (TRAIN) DEPOT STOCK CERTIFICATE (ISSUED) KANSAS CITY MISSOURI

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1908 UNION DEPOT STOCK CERTIFICATE (ISSUED) KANSAS CITY MISSOURI  . STOCK CERTIFICATE (ISSUED, TRANSFERED AND CANCELLED).   INCLUDES THE TAB FROM THE U D STOCK CERTIFICATE BOOK. COLLECTIBLE. 2 PIECES.
NUMBER 115,
ISSUED TO H L HARMON
1 SHARES @ 0 EA.
TRANSFERED TO KANSAS CITY TERMINAL RAILWAY
CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY PRESIDENT H L HARMON
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE MORE MODERN UNION STATION
Union Depot
Union Avenue
completed 1878, demolished 1915
by Susan Jezak Ford
When Union Depot was built in Kansas City?s West Bottoms, it was frequently called the ?Jackson County Insane Asylum? by those who believed that the city would never have a need for such a large train station. It did not take long, however, for the city to outgrow the immense, new showplace.
Kansas City was home to 60,000 citizens when the depot was built in 1878. The fashionable, elegant building replaced a two-room structure designed by Octave Chanute. The site for Union Depot was acquired from early Kansas City leaders Kersey Coates and William H. Hopkins. In 1869 the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, the first railroad to reach Kansas City, purchased part of the site for railroad tracks from the two property owners. The Missouri River and Gulf Railroad bought more land from the men in 1870 for Kansas City?s first train station. The city condemned 6.5 additional acres for the new Union Depot in 1878. Altogether, the depot building?the second Union Depot in the country?and the adjoining land cost the city 0,000. (St. Louis was the first city where the various railroad companies decided to locate their terminal facilities in one location.)
The ornate Union Depot was built parallel to the bluffs of the West Bottoms and stood between the railroad tracks and Union Avenue. As one approached the station from the upper elevation of downtown Kansas City, the towers of the depot recalled the faraway skylines of Paris, Vienna, or Berlin. ?It is one of the most picturesque and attractive buildings in the United States,?
The Kansas City Star
reporter wrote. The writer went on to describe the building as designed in the Renaissance style and ?somewhat Frenchy? with its mansard roof and Parisian towers. ?The architect has given us the handsomest and most pleasing union of two of the most pleasing styles in modern architecture,? he concluded. The depot opened for business on April 8, 1878.
The original stock holders of the Union Depot
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
THE ATCHISON TOPEKA AND SANTA FE. RAILROAD CO.
THE CHICAGO ALTON RAILRO0AD COMPANY
THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.
THE HANNIBAL & ST. JOSEPH RAILROAD COO.
THE KANSAS CITY, FT. SCOTT & GULF RAILROAD CO.
THE KANSAS CITY, ST. JOSEPH & COUNCIL BLUFF R. R. CO.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
THE SOUTHERN KANSAS RAILWAY COMPANY
THE WABASH RAILROAD COMPANY
ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE, RAILROAD.  NORMAL AGING FOR THIS PERIOD,
I AM PRICED MANY TIMES LOWER THAN MOST SELLERS ON EBAY.