Ithaca station (Lehigh Valley Railroad)
Lehigh Valley Railroad Station is a historic railway station located at 806 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York.
Lehigh Valley Railroad Station | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Location | W. Buffalo St. and Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 42°26′29.1″N 76°30′46.9″W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1898 |
| Architect | A. B. Wood |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival, Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001311 |
| Added to NRHP | December 31, 1974 |
The Passenger Station and Freight Station were designed by local architect A. B. Wood 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.
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, converted the abandoned building into a restaurant. 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.