Goleta Depot is a train station building in Goleta , California constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1901, as part of the completion of the Coast Route linking Los Angeles and San Francisco . It is a Southern Pacific standard design Two Story Combination Depot No. 22. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the California Register of Historical Resources and is the centerpiece of the South Coast Railroad Museum .
6-474: Southern Pacific closed its Goleta station in the 1970s. Eventually, Goleta Beautiful, a civic organization, obtained rights to the abandoned building which was moved on November 18–19, 1981 to nearby Lake Los Carneros County Park. The park is the site of historic Stow House and Lake Los Carneros with walking trails and bird watching. The station was rehabilitated and restored, reopening in October 1982. At first,
12-666: A property in Santa Barbara County, California on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This California train station-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stow House The Stow House is a U.S. historical landmark in Goleta , California . Formerly the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, the Stow House, in
18-504: A Carpenter Gothic Victorian home on the site and moved into the house with his bride, Ida G. Hollister, in 1873. The family expanded the house in two major renovations in the 1880s and 1910s. The house was occupied by three generations of Stow descendants until the 1960s. In 1875, 3,000 lemon trees were planted in the first commercial lemon orchard planting in California. Sherman Stow's son, state senator Edgar Whitney Stow, set up
24-498: A research laboratory at the ranch and developed disease resistant lemon rootstock of great value to local growers. The earliest commercial irrigation in the area took place on the ranch using the pond created by the Stows. The pond was expanded to create Lake Los Carneros which remains within the park. The house museum displays family photographs and furniture, with stories of Sherman and Ida Stow and their descendants. The Stow House
30-764: The Carpenter Gothic style, is now the headquarters of the Goleta Valley Historical Society which preserves, interprets, and fosters appreciation for the history of the Goleta Valley. The Stow House was once the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, on the original Rancho La Goleta . In 1871, William Whitney Stow, a legal counsel for Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, purchased 1,043 acres (4.22 km ) costing $ 28,677 for his son, Sherman P. Stow. Sherman Stow built
36-595: The station also housed three local nonprofit organizations, the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, Institute for American Research and Santa Barbara Audubon Society in addition to the museum, in a form of adaptive reuse . Later, the entire building became the home of the South Coast Railroad Museum. A new train station with a concrete platform and open-air shelter opened nearby in 1998 for Amtrak trains. This article about
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