The Hartland Railroad Depot in

Hartland, Wisconsin Hartland is a village along the Bark River in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States, that is a suburb of Milwaukee. The population was 9,110 at the 2010 census. Geography Hartland is located at (43.100180, −88.344452). It is in the ...

is a railroad depot built in 1879 for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad. The depot was the third depot to be built in Hartland. The first depot was built in 1854 with the arrival of the Milwaukee and Watertown Railroad. This was replaced in 1869, but that depot fell victim to a lightning strike and burned down. Therefore, the current Italianate brick depot was built as a replacement. In 1899, the railroad decided to build a more impressive depot, and the 1879 structure was moved slightly to the west to become a freight depot. However, the 1899 depot was destroyed in a 1916 fire and replaced with another depot in 1917, which served until 1969 before being demolished. The 1879 Italianate depot is the only one of the five depots in Hartland to survive. The depot incorporated an agent's quarters, a waiting room and a freight room. It was listed on the

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on April 21, 1988.

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{{Reflist * ''Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Depot'' National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, 1985. On file at the National Park Service. Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Waukesha County, Wisconsin Former railway stations in Wisconsin Italianate architecture in Wisconsin Railway stations in the United States opened in 1879 Hartland