Cornwall Bridge station is a former train station in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The station building was built in the 1880s to serve passengers on the Housatonic Railroad. Passenger service on the line ended in 1971, at which time Penn Central auctioned off the station. The following year, the station received a National Register of Historic Places designation.
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 Cornwall Bridge station in August 2022 | |||||||||||
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Cornwall Bridge Railroad Station | |||||||||||
| Location | Junction of Poppleswamp Brook Road and Kent Road, Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°49′11″N 73°22′20″W / 41.81972°N 73.37222°W | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Stick/Eastlake | ||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 72001313[1] | ||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | April 26, 1972 | ||||||||||
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History
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The station, a Stick style wood-frame structure, was built by the Housatonic Railroad in the 1880s to replace an earlier station. The Housatonic was acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1892.[2] The New Haven Railroad was acquired by the Penn Central Railroad in 1969, which went bankrupt by 1970. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1972, as Cornwall Bridge Railroad Station.
See also
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Cornwall Bridge Railroad Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
External links
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Media related to Cornwall Bridge station at Wikimedia Commons