Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (Ithaca, New York)

Lehigh Valley Railroad Station
Location W. Buffalo St. and Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, New York
Coordinates 42°26′28″N 76°30′41″W / 42.44111°N 76.51139°W / 42.44111; -76.51139Coordinates: 42°26′28″N 76°30′41″W / 42.44111°N 76.51139°W / 42.44111; -76.51139
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1898
Architect A. B. Wood
Architectural style Classical Revival, Romanesque
NRHP reference # 74001311[1]
Added to NRHP December 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.

It was used as a passenger station until 1961. In 1966, local resident Joseph O. Ciaschi, an early local leader in the historic preservation movement,[3] converted the abandoned building into a restaurant.[4] Known as The Station, the restaurant operated until September 2005, when it was closed and the building 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 Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 171. ISBN 978-0471143895.
  3. ↑ "Joseph O. Ciaschi Obituary", Ithaca Journal, November 30, 2011
  4. ↑ 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".
  Former lines  
Preceding station   Lehigh Valley Railroad   Following station
toward Buffalo
Main Line
Ithaca Branch
toward Jersey City
Willow Creek
toward Buffalo
Sayre
toward Jersey City
TerminusAuburn Division
Auburn and Ithaca Branch
McKinneys
toward Auburn
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