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Historic train station with some exhibits showing the history of the city Topeka, the Santa Fe and Union Pacific train service.
Great Overland Station, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot, is a museum and former railroad station in Topeka, Kansas, United States. The station was built from 1925 to 1927 and designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, whose firm designed over 20 Union Pacific Railroad stations from 1924 to 1931. The station's Neoclassical Revival design uses terra cotta extensively and features a center pavilion with two increasingly smaller pavilions on either side. Passenger service to the station began in January 1927; almost 20,000 people attended the station's grand opening, and the new station was considered "one of the largest and finest stations west of the Missouri River". In the later years of its train station life, it also hosted the passenger trains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 'Santa Fe' had its trains stop at its own Topeka station.
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Regularly hosts concerts, plays and performances.
Take the #4 West 10th Bus along 10th Street to the Capitol. The capital features original murals and a tour of the rotunda. There are many restaurants within walking distance to the building, making this a nice afternoon visit.
Take the #4 West 10th Bus along 10th Street to the school. Topeka High School is known for being the first million-dollar school west of the Mississippi river.
This 183,000-sq-ft (17,000 m2) building may be one of the greatest libraries around, and is popular with people from across Kansas and out of state. There's a great selections of all media types including books, movies, music and periodicals. It also houses local art and screens classic movies for free.
This historic site highlights Monroe Elementary School, where the historic case ending school segregation in the United States started. The former school now includes exhibits and a restored kindergarten room.