Port Jervis (Erie Railroad station)

Erie Railroad Station

Port Jervis Station, August 2011
Location Jersey Avenue and Fowler Street
Port Jervis, New York
Coordinates 41°22′18″N 74°41′28″W / 41.37167°N 74.69111°W / 41.37167; -74.69111Coordinates: 41°22′18″N 74°41′28″W / 41.37167°N 74.69111°W / 41.37167; -74.69111
Built 1892
Architect Grattan & Jennings
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 80002739[1]
Added to NRHP April 11, 1980

The Erie Depot, officially known as the Erie Railroad Station, is located at the corner of Jersey Avenue and Fowler Street in Port Jervis, New York. It was built in 1892 as a passenger station for the Erie Railroad by Grattan & Jennings in a Queen Anne style. For years it was the busiest passenger station on the railroad's Delaware Branch, owing to Port Jervis's position on the Delaware River near where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania converge. The long-distance passenger trains Erie Limited and the Lake Cities between Chicago and Hoboken served this station.[2]

The decline in passenger rail traffic in the mid-20th century, after many people had switched to automobile travel on the federally subsidized highways, resulted in the termination of passenger service between Port Jervis and Binghamton in 1970. Local commuter service to Hoboken was taken over by the MTA's Metro-North Railroad shortly thereafter. Rather than using the Erie Depot, , Metro-North built a minimalist station of its own. It had a parking lot for passengers' cars, a shelter and a street-level concrete platform.

The original station declined in condition (along with the city). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Since then it has been renovated. It houses several small shops on the street side.

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  1. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Malcolm A. Booth and Lawrence E. Gobrecht (December 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Erie Railroad Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-23. See also: "Accompanying nine photos".
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