Ithaca station (Lehigh Valley Railroad)

	Lehigh Valley Railroad Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	W. Buffalo St. and Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Coordinates	42°26′29.1″N 76°30′46.9″W / 42.441417°N 76.513028°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

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

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 171. ISBN 978-0471143895.
^ Lehigh Valley Railroad timetable, September 27, 1953, Tables 1, 2
^ "Joseph O. Ciaschi Obituary", Ithaca Journal, November 30, 2011
^ 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".

External links

Media related to Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (Ithaca, New York) at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NY-5630, "Lehigh Valley Railroad Station, West Buffalo Street & Taughannock Boulevard, Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY", 6 photos, 1 photo caption page

Preceding station		Following station
Former lines
Willow Creek toward Geneva	Ithaca Branch	Newfield toward Van Etten
Terminus	Auburn and Ithaca Branch	McKinneys toward Auburn

[nris-1] "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

[ciaschi-4] "Joseph O. Ciaschi Obituary", Ithaca Journal, November 30, 2011

[nrhpinv_ny-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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