Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot

The Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot is a former railway station of the Pacific Electric Railway, located in Lynwood, California. Originally in service on the Santa Ana Line, the station building was moved after the construction of the Century Freeway and now resides in downtown Lynwood.

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Lynwood Depot at its original location on Long Beach Boulevard, April 1980
Location	Lynwood, California
Owned by	Pacific Electric Railway
Line(s)	PE West Santa Ana Branch
History
Opened	c. 1905
Closed	May 24, 1958
Rebuilt	1917
Original company	Los Angeles Interurban Railway
Former services
Preceding station Pacific Electric Following station Modjeska Park towards Pacific Electric Building Santa Ana discontinued 1958 Lugo towards Santa Ana SP Depot
Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates	33°55′32″N 118°12′34″W[lower-alpha 1]
Built	1917
Architectural style	Mission Revival
NRHP reference No.	74000524
Added to NRHP	September 25, 1974[1]

History

The first Lynwood station was established by the Los Angeles Interurban Railway in 1905 as part of the West Santa Ana Branch. It was little more than a simple shed adjacent to sugar beet fields at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard.[lower-alpha 1][2] The line and station was folded into the new Pacific Electric Railway in 1911. In 1917,[3] the Lynwood Company constructed a new Depot in the Mission Revival style for the railroad in exchange for other nearby grade and level crossing improvements. Interurban service was discontinued in 1958 with the rest of the Santa Ana Line.

The Depot building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1974. It was also catalogued by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1908.[3] The building was acquired by the City of Lynwood as a gift from Southern Pacific (successors to the PE). When the Century Freeway was constructed through Lynwood in the late 1980s, the Depot building was moved to its current location at 3780 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the entrance to Lynwood City Park.[lower-alpha 2][4] The modern Long Beach Boulevard station serves the Los Angeles Metro Rail C Line light rail near Lynwood Depot's original location.

See also

• Bellflower station — another existing PE station building on the Santa Ana Branch
• Watts Station — another existing PE station building listed on the NRHP

References

Notes

1. Original location 33°55′32″N 118°12′34″W
2. Modern location 33.928295°N 118.200622°W

Citations

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "1981 Inventory of Pacific Electric Routes" (PDF). Caltrans. February 1982. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
3. "Lynwood Pacific Electric Railway Depot". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
4. City of Lynwood; Johnson, Ilu; Diaz, Chris (2012). Lynwood. Arcadia Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 978-0738588896.