Visit Northern Pacific Railroad Depot Museum, Wallace, Idaho

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Built in 1901-1906, this Chateauesque-style building was built for the Northern Pacific Railway to serve as the train depot for the city of Wallace, Idaho, located at the convergence of lines run by the Union Pacific Railroad and Northern Pacific Railway through the Idaho Panhandle. The building was originally located north of the tracks at the mouth of the 9 Mile Creek Canyon, but was moved about 200 feet (61 meters) south of its original location in 1986, to a site at the eastern terminus of Pine Street, saving it from demolition when the Interstate 90 viaduct was constructed along the old rail line route. The building features a rough-hewn stone base, buff roman brick cladding on the first floor, arched bays on the first floor with doorways featuring transoms and one-over-one double-hung windows, a shed canopy at the corner of the first floor with exposed rafter tails and wooden brackets, a pebbledash stucco-clad second floor with half-timbering and nine-over-one double-hung windows, a hipped roof with exposed rafter tails, and a three-story cylindrical corner tower with a conical roof and finial. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and is a contributing structure in the Wallace Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and expanded to its present size in 1983. The building presently houses the Northern Pacific Railroad Depot Museum, which documents the history of the railroad in Wallace and the Northern Idaho Panhandle.

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