History
The station was constructed in 1926 by the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad Company, the second railway line to enter St. Petersburg. The office building and warehouse are built of brick in masonry vernacular style and are the city's only substantially unaltered example of railroad architecture. The line and building came to be owned by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL), and the building continued in use as a freight depot for that company until 1967. In that year, SAL merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), forming the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and the depot was closed.
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