King Street Station is a
train station in
Seattle,
Washington,
United States. Located between South King and South Jackson streets and Second and Fourth Avenues South in the
Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, the station is just south of downtown. Built between 1904 and 1906, it served the
Great Northern Railway and
Northern Pacific Railway from its grand opening on May 10, 1906, until the creation and start of
Amtrak on May 1, 1971. The station was designed by the
St. Paul,
Minnesota architectural firm of
Charles A. Reed and Allen H. Stem, who were later associate designers for the
New York Central Railroad's
Grand Central Terminal in
New York City. King Street Station was Seattle's primary train terminal until the construction of the adjacent
Oregon & Washington Depot, later named
Union Station, in 1911. King Street Station was added to the
National Register of Historic Places and the Washington Heritage Register in 1973.