The Ocean City 34th Street Station was located in Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The station — a small wooden shelter with bench seating for a few passengers, located just south of 34th Street next to a rail line running down the middle of Haven Avenue — was built around 1885 by the Ocean City Railroad, which was acquired by the Atlantic City Railroad in 1901, and later by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. Trains last served the station in August 1981, when service was cancelled due to poor track conditions and limited funding from the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[4]
34th Street | |||||||||||
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 A motel, adjacent to the former location of the train station. | |||||||||||
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| Line(s) | Seashore Line | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Closed | August 13, 1981[1] | ||||||||||
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Ocean City 34th Street Station | |||||||||||
 Photo from 1978 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Haven Avenue near 34th Street, Ocean City, New Jersey | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°15′6″N 74°36′49″W / 39.25167°N 74.61361°W | ||||||||||
| Built | c. 1885 | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Stick/Eastlake | ||||||||||
| MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 84002613[2] | ||||||||||
| NJRHP No. | 1011[3] | ||||||||||
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| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||
| Designated NJRHP | March 17, 1984 | ||||||||||
The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984, for its significance in architecture and transportation.[2][5] It was subsequently damaged beyond repair when a truck backed into it, and thus demolished.
See also
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edit- ^ "Stations". seashorelines.org. Cape May Seashore Lines. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System – (#84002613)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Cape May County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 25, 2024. p. 8.
Demolished
- ^ Schwieterman, Joseph P. (2001). When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Eastern United States. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. pp. 193–197. ISBN 978-0-943549-97-2.
- ^ Meyer, Richard (July 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ocean City 34th Street Station". National Park Service. With accompanying photo
External links
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