Category: Union Station Timeline

1910 Picture of the original restaurant from Union Station circa the 1910s. Savarins, as the restaurant was known, billed itself as Washington’s Best Restaurant. It

1907 Union Station opened with the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Pittsburgh Express on October 27th. The rail station went into full service

1903 Congress approved the union terminal site on the north side of Massachusetts Avenue, with D.H. Burnham & Co. as the building’s architects. Burnham and

1901 The McMillan Commission determined that further development of the L’Enfant Plan necessitated removing existing railroad facilities from the National Mall.