Cheyenne, Wyoming | Historic Union Pacific Train Depot | The Capitol | A Mystery on the Range

Join our adventure as we travel to the Capital of Wyoming, Cheyenne. It is an area rich with Transcontinental Railroad history. We begin our adventure at the Cheyenne Depot Plaza, home to the Historic Union Pacific Railroad Depot. Cheyenne’s first railroad depot was built by 1869 and was a two-story Railroad hotel; however, that hotel burned in 1872. It was replaced only to have the second depot burn in 1886. The depot we see today was completed in 1888. It was billed as the grandest depot west of the Mississippi River. The depot was designed by Henry Van Brunt, a prominent Architect from Boston and constructed of sandstone blocks quarried in Fort Collins, Colorado. It has been rumored the Depot was built directly down the street from and facing the Wyoming State Capitol. The depot’s location was picked so that Legislators would see and remember how important the Union Pacific was to Cheyenne and the State of Wyoming. Today the depot is a National Historic Landmark and is home to the Cheyenne depot museum.
Our adventure also takes us to the State Capitol. The construction of the capitol began in 1886, prior to Wyoming gaining statehood. The architecture of the building is Renaissance Revival, reminiscent of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The sandstone for the building came from quarries in Rawlins, Wyoming, and Fort Collins, Colorado. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, for its role in Wyoming's history, specifically the role it played in hosting conventions ensuring woman suffrage in the state constitution.
We venture outside of Cheyenne to visit Granite Wyoming and the historic 1892 Granite School. This is where we ran into the mysterious “Dome on the Range” and got chased back to Cheyenne by a torrential downpour!
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