Lehigh Valley Railroad Station
Ithaca station (Lehigh Valley Railroad) is located in New York
Ithaca station (Lehigh Valley Railroad)
Ithaca station (Lehigh Valley Railroad) is located in the United States
Ithaca station (Lehigh Valley Railroad)
LocationW. Buffalo St. and Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, New York
Coordinates42°26′29.1″N 76°30′46.9″W / 42.441417°N 76.513028°W / 42.441417; -76.513028
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1898
ArchitectA. B. Wood
Architectural styleClassical Revival, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.74001311[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 31, 1974

Lehigh Valley Railroad Station is a historic railway station located at 806 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York.

The Passenger Station and Freight Station were designed by local architect A. B. Wood[2] and built in 1898 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The Passenger Station is a Classical Revival structure with a Romanesque feeling. It is a massive square building with extensions and sheltering roofs for baggage operations. At one corner is the entrance marquee and a four sided street clock mounted in a Corinthian column. The main waiting room section has a hipped roof and features a pedimented porte cochere. The Freight Station is a long, gray painted frame building with a two-story clapboarded section and a long freight storage part. Lehigh Valley passenger trains making stops there included the Black Diamond, Maple Leaf and Star.[3]

It was used as a passenger station until February 4, 1961. In 1966, local resident Joseph O. Ciaschi, an early local leader in the historic preservation movement,[4] converted the abandoned building into a restaurant.[5] Known as The Station, the restaurant operated until September, 2005, when it was closed and the building was converted for use as a branch office of the Chemung Canal Trust Company: an Elmira-based bank.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 171. ISBN 978-0471143895.
  3. ↑ Lehigh Valley Railroad timetable, September 27, 1953, Tables 1, 2
  4. ↑ "Joseph O. Ciaschi Obituary", Ithaca Journal, November 30, 2011
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Mulholland and Stephen Jacobs (December 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lehigh Valley Railroad Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-11-10.See also: "Accompanying five photos".

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