The Queen Anne style depot was designed by the same architects who worked on the NYC mansion of NP president Henry Villard. The building was 100-feet long and 32-feet wide with a brick first floor, wood framed second floor complete with hipped dormers for the windows and topped with a bell-shaped cupola.
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The 400-foot long trackside platform was covered by a 8-feet wide verandah supported by ornate iron pillars and accommodated up to 8 passenger cars.
The depot was finished in November 1882 at a total cost of $12,000 ($270,000 in 2010 dollars) and would serve the city until 1928.
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Master's Oil Company constructed an "artistic filling station" on a vacant at the corner of First Avenue NW and Main Street, across from Bingenheimer Mercantile Co. in 1920. A dealer for the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, they promised they would transform the site into "a beauty spot."
