The Sawtelle Streetcar Depot is located on the grounds of the

Sawtelle Veterans Home The Sawtelle Veterans Home was a long-term care, care home for disabled American veterans in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California, United States. The Home, formally the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, was establi ...

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 Wadsworth Chapel 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 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.

References

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History

Design

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