Spring Street Freight House

Spring Street Freight House
Location Jeffersonville, Indiana
Coordinates 38°16′48.49″N 85°44′47.50″W / 38.2801361°N 85.7465278°WCoordinates: 38°16′48.49″N 85°44′47.50″W / 38.2801361°N 85.7465278°W
Built 1925
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Craftsman
Governing body Ohio River Bridges Project
NRHP Reference # 07000209
Added to NRHP March 29, 2007

The Spring Street Freight House is a site on the National Register of Historic Places, located in Jeffersonville, Indiana. It was placed on the Register in May 2007, after being nominated by the Indiana Department of Transportation. It is one of the few railhouses built in the 1920s still standing.

It was built by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (CCC & St. L RR), also known as the Big Four, around 1925. It was built Craftsman-style, and is 1.5 stories high. Its foundation and walls are made of wood, and the roof is asphalt shingles. It includes a brick chimney. The property upon which the freight house is upon covers 0.52 acres (2,100 m2).[1]

After the railroad abandoned it in 1963, R.A. Alms & Sons Feed Wholesalers used it from 1970-1975. In the 1980s a cable company used it. It is currently unused, but the Ohio River Bridges Project had plans to restore it in 2008 and turn it into its headquarters; as of August 2009 nothing has been done to renovate it.[2]

It was placed on the Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures and the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 2007.

The State of Indiana and Indiana Department of Transportation completed an extensive rehabilitation of the building in 2012.

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  1. ↑ Branigan Sec.7, p.1
  2. ↑ Branigan Sec.8, p.11