A place where things are stored or deposited for safekeeping; a warehouse or repository for goods, documents, or securities.
From Latin 'depositorium', from 'depositum' meaning 'something deposited', from 'deponere' meaning 'to put down'. The term evolved from medieval Latin legal contexts into modern financial and storage terminology by the 16th century.
The famous Texas School Book Depository gained historical significance not for its intended purpose of storing textbooks, but as the location from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy in 1963. This transformed an ordinary warehouse into one of America's most notorious buildings.
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