Seojoo Han, an assistant professor in the School of Design, and Huili Wang, an instructor of interior design, were also involved with this project. DGSN: 491 was composed of nine students from a variety of majors, including architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design and art education. To facilitate the work, the School of Design created an interdisciplinary class. This spring, it was the Joplin Union Train Depot. Each spring, an interdisciplinary team composed of students and faculty members will take on one project. SDSU's School of Design was selected as a TAB partner project, through a five-year, $230,000 grant, to conduct visioning work across the U.S.
Martin has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field as a consultant and technical outreach provider to communities. The research team worked alongside Sabine Martin, director of the TAB program at the Center for Hazardous Substance Research at KSU. "It also helps to move brownfield sites forward toward reuse." "The goal of EPA TAB projects is to increase individual communities’ understanding and involvement in brownfield cleanup and revitalization," Tofte said. The program is also designed to help communities assess, clean and reuse brownfield sites. Brownfields are located throughout the U.S., and the EPA's TAB program aims to help communities, tribes and others understand risks associated with these sites. Then, the Downtown Joplin Alliance applied for federal funding through the Environmental Protection Agency's Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Communities Program, led and managed by Kansas State University.īrownfields (or brownfield sites) are abandoned properties, primarily due to pollution and/or industrial use. Initially, the city partnered with the MoDNR and a local commercial real estate firm to list and market the Joplin Union Depot property. Another attempt was made to revive the historic structure this year. Since then, numerous attempts to revitalize the building have failed. Ownership changed hands several times before the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) took over the building following foreclosure in 1989. In 1973, the depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but it soon was abandoned and began to decay.
The depot served as a community centerpiece, operating two railroad services-the Kansas City Southern Railway and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad-until 1969, when the station ceased operation. ft.," the January 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics reported. The train sheds and platforms cover 25,000 sq. The center portion of the station, built in the old Roman type of architecture, is two stories high. "A striking example of what may be done with the waste of zinc and lead mines has been demonstrated in the construction of the new union station at Joplin, Mo., the concrete of which is largely made up of flint and limestone tailing taken from the waste piles of mines in the district. The Joplin Union Train Depot in March 2023. Curtis' techniques were so innovative that the building was featured in an edition of Popular Mechanics. Curtis himself was an early pioneer of glass curtain walls and utilized mining waste in the building's concrete. Designed by Canadian-born, Kansas City architect Louis Curtis, the depot was one of the first fireproof reinforced-concrete structures built in the country. This spring, four faculty members-led by Pat Crawford, professor and director of the School of Design, and Elizabeth Tofte, assistant professor of landscape architecture-and nine students traveled to Joplin, Missouri, to take on a significant community visioning project that could bring a dilapidated train station back to life.īuilt in the early 20th century, the Joplin Union Train Depot operated for nearly 60 years in downtown Joplin. That's the question faculty members and students in South Dakota State University's School of Design set out to answer. What should be done about old, abandoned and decaying buildings? The team, composed of faculty members and students from South Dakota State University's School of Design, near the entrance of the Joplin Union Train Depot in March 2023.
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