The Port Jervis station is a disused train station 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 the Queen Anne style. For years it was the busiest passenger station on the railroad's Delaware Branch because Port Jervis is along the Delaware River near the tripoint of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The long-distance passenger trains Erie Limited and the Lake Cities between Chicago and Hoboken served this station.[5]
Port Jervis | |||||||||||
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 Port Jervis station in August 2011 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 13-19 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis, New York 12771 | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 2677 (Erie Railroad)[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | December 31, 1847[2] | ||||||||||
| Closed | 1974[3] | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1850;[3] July 8, 1889;[3] February 6, 1892[2] | ||||||||||
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Erie Railroad Station | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 41°22′20″N 74°41′30″W / 41.37222°N 74.69167°W | ||||||||||
| Built | 1892 | ||||||||||
| Architect | Grattan & Jennings | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Queen Anne | ||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 80002739[4] | ||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1980 | ||||||||||
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 Metropolitan Transportation Authority'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.[citation needed]
The original station declined in condition (along with the city). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Erie Railroad Station. Since then it has been renovated. It houses several small shops on the street side.[citation needed]
See also
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Bibliography
edit- Osterberg, Matthew (2002). Images of America: Port Jervis. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738509006.
References
edit- ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ^ a b "Over 400 Back Erie Station". The Pike County Dispatch. October 20, 1977. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Osterberg 2002, p. 16.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ 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".
External links
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Media related to Port Jervis (Erie Railroad station) at Wikimedia Commons- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NY-22, "Erie Railway, Port Jervis Station, Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis, Orange County, NY", 9 photos, 1 photo caption page
