Lehigh Valley Railroad Station is a historic railway station located at 806 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York.
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| Location | W. Buffalo St. and Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 42°26′29.1″N 76°30′46.9″W / 42.441417°N 76.513028°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1898 |
| Architect | A. B. Wood |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival, Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001311[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 31, 1974 |
The Passenger Station and Freight Station were designed by local architect A. B. Wood[2] and built in 1898 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The Passenger Station is a Classical Revival structure with a Romanesque feeling. It is a massive square building with extensions and sheltering roofs for baggage operations. At one corner is the entrance marquee and a four sided street clock mounted in a Corinthian column. The main waiting room section has a hipped roof and features a pedimented porte cochere. The Freight Station is a long, gray painted frame building with a two-story clapboarded section and a long freight storage part. Lehigh Valley passenger trains making stops there included the Black Diamond, Maple Leaf and Star.[3]
It was used as a passenger station until February 4, 1961. In 1966, local resident Joseph O. Ciaschi, an early local leader in the historic preservation movement,[4] converted the abandoned building into a restaurant.[5] Known as The Station, the restaurant operated until September, 2005, when it was closed and the building was converted for use as a branch office of the Chemung Canal Trust Company: an Elmira-based bank.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 171. ISBN 978-0471143895.
- ^ Lehigh Valley Railroad timetable, September 27, 1953, Tables 1, 2
- ^ "Joseph O. Ciaschi Obituary", Ithaca Journal, November 30, 2011
- ^ Elizabeth Mulholland and Stephen Jacobs (December 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lehigh Valley Railroad Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-11-10.See also: "Accompanying five photos".
External links
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Media related to Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (Ithaca, New York) at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NY-5630, "Lehigh Valley Railroad Station, West Buffalo Street & Taughannock Boulevard, Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY", 6 photos, 1 photo caption page
| Preceding station | Lehigh Valley Railroad | Following station | ||
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| Willow Creek toward Geneva
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Ithaca Branch | Newfield toward Van Etten
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| Terminus | Auburn and Ithaca Branch | McKinneys toward Auburn
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