Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center

Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center
Convention Center station   Northbank Line
Website
jaxevents.com
Jacksonville Terminal Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front
Show map of Florida Show map of the United States
Location	Jacksonville, Florida
Architect	Murchison, Kenneth M., Howe, W.B.W.
Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
NRHP reference No.	76000590[1]
Added to NRHP	1976

Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center is a 265,000-square-foot (24,600 m²) convention center located in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Opened in 1986, it was built incorporating Jacksonville Terminal Complex / Union Station as well as several thousand square feet of newly built structure.

Located in the Jacksonville neighborhood of

The Convention Center was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

History

When the second Union Station opened in 1919 (on the site of the original one), it was the largest railroad station in the South. At its peak, the terminal handled as many as 142 trains and 20,000 passengers a day.^[2] Some of the passenger trains handled in Jacksonville were 18 to 22 railcars long. Within the terminal, there was a restaurant, snack bars, news stands, a barber shop, florist, a drug store, and gift shops.^[3] The Jacksonville terminal had 32 tracks. 29 of those tracks were passenger tracks with platforms. Of those, 1-15 were stub or "head" tracks, which ended at the bumper posts. (Some of these massive decorative concrete posts still stand within the Convention Center Concourse).

The station was last used on January 3, 1974;

• Architecture of Jacksonville
• List of convention centers in the United States
• Northeast Florida Commuter Rail

References

• JTA Commuter Rail Plan^{[dead link]}
• FEC Passenger Railway Plan

Preceding station	Amtrak			Following station
Terminus		Carolina Special 1973		Savannah toward New York
DeLand toward St. Petersburg		Champion		Thalmann toward New York
		Floridian		Waycross toward Chicago
Waldo toward Miami
		Silver Meteor		Savannah toward New York
		Silver Star
Preceding station	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad			Following station
Wessner toward Tampa		Main Line		Dinsmore toward Richmond
Wessner toward Camp Johnston		Camp Johnston Branch		Terminus
Cambon toward St. Petersburg		Ocala District
Preceding station	Florida East Coast Railway			Following station
South Jacksonville toward Miami		Main Line		Terminus
South Jacksonville toward Mayport		Mayport
Preceding station	Seaboard Air Line Railroad			Following station
Marietta toward Tampa or Miami		Main Line		Panama toward Richmond
Marietta toward River Junction		Tallahassee Subdivision		Terminus
Terminus		Fernandina		Panama toward Fernandina
Preceding station	Southern Railway			Following station
Grand Crossing toward Chattanooga		Jacksonville		Terminus

External links

• Media related to Union Station (Jacksonville) at Wikimedia Commons
• Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center