Leavenworth Riverfront Community Center, Community center on Missouri River banks in Leavenworth, United States.
The Leavenworth Riverfront Community Center is a recreational facility on the Missouri River bank with multipurpose rooms, a gymnasium, and modern fitness equipment. Large windows throughout the building frame views of the river while you exercise or gather indoors.
Built in 1888 as a Union Pacific Railroad depot, the building was designed by the Chicago firm Cobb and Frost and erected by James A. McGonigle. In 1984 V.B. Greenamyre and family sold it to the city of Leavenworth, which renovated it with bond funds and reopened it in 1988, a century after construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as the Old Union Depot.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Union Depot, the name under which it was entered in 1987. Its identity as a former Union Pacific station, designed by the Chicago firm Cobb and Frost, is what the listing commemorates.
The center is staffed by the Leavenworth Parks and Recreation Department, which handles maintenance, room rentals and activity programs. It opens Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The indoor walking track measures one tenth of a mile.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 under the name Old Union Depot, before the city converted it into a recreation center. Its brick and sandstone exterior began renovation in 2014, funded in part by a 2010 Kansas Department of Transportation grant to replace the sandstone.
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