The Sawtelle Streetcar Depot is located on the grounds of the

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in Sawtelle, in the Westside area of

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. The

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was designed by J. Lee Burton in 1900, in conjunction with the nearby

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also on the Veterans Home campus. Both were listed in the

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in 1972.

History

This station was the

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terminus of the Soldiers' Home Line, a short extension of the

Santa Monica Air Line The Santa Monica Air Line was an interurban railroad operated by the Pacific Electric between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles. Electric passenger service operated over the line between 1908 and 1953. After abandonment as a freight railroad, ...

to the

. The depot also served the

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. The extension started at the present-day Expo / Sepulveda station on the

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and continued north on the western side of

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to the depot. Passenger service to the station ended around July 1920. The line was maintained and operational — but seldom used — until the entire Air Line was abandoned. After closure the right-of-way was initially kept intact, but eventually sold off in piecemeal for various building developments, making any future restoration prohibitively expensive.

Design

The wooden building was designed in the Victorian Eastlake Movement style by J. Lee Burton, and completed in 1900. It is similar to another still-standing structure of the Air Line, the

Palms-Southern Pacific Railroad Depot Palms-Southern Pacific Railroad Depot is a historic railroad depot built between 1886 and 1888 in what is now the Palms section of Los Angeles, California. The two-story wood depot was originally located at the corner of National Boulevard and Vi ...

References

Railway stations in Los Angeles Sawtelle, Los Angeles Railway stations in the United States opened in 1900 Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles Stick-Eastlake architecture in California Pacific Electric stations {{LosAngeles-struct-stub

History

Design

See also

References