The Fernley Preservation Society is a non-profit, tax exempt corporation, organized for educational and historical purposes to promote the history of Fernley and the surrounding area. he society was incorporated in 1986, although its roots date back to year prior, when local citizens banded together as the “Save the Depot Committee ” and Fernley historical research organization to make arrangements to acquire and relocate the historic 1914 Fernley Depot, that was closed in 1985. These two groups merged and became the F.P.S.
The Fernley and Lassen Railway Depot, 675 E. Main St. in Fernley, Nevada was built in 1914. Also known as Southern Pacific Railroad Depot.
It is a 187-by-26-foot (57.0 m × 7.9 m) wood frame building of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company’s “Common Standard Station Plan #22” and is significant as a good surviving example of railroad pattern book architecture, and the only example of that specific plan surviving in Nevada. It was used as a railway station until 1985.
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Courtesy T. Turner – The desert blooms