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Aberdeen station, otherwise known as the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Depot in Aberdeen, South Dakota was built by the
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (M&StL) was an American Class I railroad that built and operated lines radiating south and west from Minneapolis, Minnesota for 90 years from 1870 to 1960. The railway never reached St. Louis (despite its n ...
(or M&StL) in the early 1900s and opened for service on September 1, 1907. The depot is a one and one-half story rectangular brick building with a one story bay window on the south wall. The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad began laying tracks into Aberdeen in 1906, and the first passenger train, the Aberdeen Limited, arrived on September 1, 1907. Passenger service to the station lasted until 1949. In 1968, the old station became the Depot Club. In 2016, the station was renovated and became an architecture office.


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* French, Edith. ''Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Depot (Brown County, South Dakota)'' National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, 1976. On file at the National Park Service. Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota Aberdeen, South Dakota Railway stations in the United States opened in 1907 1907 establishments in South Dakota Buildings and structures in Aberdeen, South Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Brown County, South Dakota Former railway stations in South Dakota Railway stations in the United States closed in 1949 1940s disestablishments in South Dakota Transportation in Brown County, South Dakota Neoclassical architecture in South Dakota {{SouthDakota-NRHP-stub