Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot (Demolished)
314 First SW, 1902, Charles Whittlesey

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot was destroyed by fire on January 4, 1993. It was built in 1902 along with the now-demolished Alvarado Hotel, and served rail passengers as the gateway to Albuquerque and the Southwest for over 90 years.The depot was built in the California Mission style, which was used extensively by AT&SF designers throughout the West. It sported a domed tower and red tile roof and was surrounded by an arched arcade similar to those found on the neighboring Alvarado. Both the Telegraph Office and the Depot were made with pebbledash stucco (a bit like pebbles covered with a thick glaze) that was common from 1900 to 1925, and the Telegraph Office remains an excellent example of this kind of stucco.

Dignitaries such as Theodore Roosevelt and Clark Gable passed through the terminal along with thousands of others traveling to the West Coast or visiting popular sites throughout New Mexico.

Three later depot-area buildings—the Freight House, Telegraph Office and Curio Storage Building—along with a trackside wall of the Alvarado complex remain as reminders of the glory days of rail traffic through Albuquerque.