Union Station Redevelopment Co

In October of 1907, Washington, D.C.'s Union Station first opened its doors. Heralded as the largest train station in the world, Union Station ushered travelers to and from the nation's capital with an experience grand in its scale and neo-classical design.

Yet the station's glory days were tied to the success of the railroad, which in the 1950s saw its role in transportation supplanted by the...

In 1903, Daniel H. Burnham, principal architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, was chosen to design Union Station. He mo...deled the Station arches to symbolize its primary function as a gateway. Opening on October 27, 1907, Burnham used the monumental Beaux-Arts style, the Baths of Caraculla and Diocletian and the triumphal Arch of Rome as inspiration in designing what was then the largest...