The Antigo Depot is a historic

railroad station A train station, railroad station, or railway station is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track, and a station building providing such ...

in Antigo,

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. The depot was designed in 1907 by

Charles Sumner Frost Charles Sumner Frost (May 31, 1856 – December 11, 1931) was an American architect. He is best known as the architect of Navy Pier and for designing over 100 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railway. Biography Born in Lewiston, Main ...

of the architectural firm

Frost & Granger Frost & Granger was an American architectural partnership from 1898 to 1910 of brothers-in-law Charles Sumner Frost (1856–1931) and Alfred Hoyt Granger (1867–1939). Frost and Granger were known for their designs of train stations and terminal ...

in the

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style for the

Chicago and North Western Railway The Chicago and North Western was a Railroad classes#Class I, Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States. It was also known as the "North Western". The railroad operated more than of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over of t ...

. The two-story building also housed offices for a Chicago and North Western division headquarters. After rail service to the station ended, it was converted to apartments in 1992. The depot was added to the

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on February 10, 1992.

References

Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Neoclassical architecture in Wisconsin Railway stations in the United States opened in 1907 Former Chicago and North Western Railway stations National Register of Historic Places in Langlade County, Wisconsin Former railway stations in Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-railstation-stub