Amana Historic Buildings

Amana Depot

Owner 2025 Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Co

Parcel# 101300000

Zoning HP-I

History The depot was built by the “Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul Railroad Company” in the late 19th century. In 2024 it is no longer used, neglected, and deteriorating.

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2025 view from northeast
2025 view from north
2025 view from north
2025 view from southwest
2025 view from south
View of the Amana depot from south, photo from the late 1890s. [257.021]
Group of visitors at the Amana depot, they possibly came from Cedar Rapids. Photo from the late 1890s. [257.002]
Men in a wagon at the Amana depot, The photo is from May 1896. [257.026]
The Amana depot, taken from south, across the tracks. A refrigerator car (“reefer”) on the tracks behind the depot, Photo from the late 1890s. [257.027]
View of the Amana depot, woolen mill, and saw mill. Photo early 1900s [257.006]
Amana depot with a train load of excursionists, probably in 1898. [257.042]
A Cedar Rapids band playing at the Amana depot in 1904. [257.005]
A CRANDIC freight train Amana depot (Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway), photo from the 1980s. [257.019, photo Michael R Heinze]
View of the east side of the Amana depot, probably from the late 1980s. A couple of years later the depot was painted red. [257.001, photo Bill Albert]