Saint Helena station

Saint Helena
Saint Helena
	The depot in 2011
General information
Location	1500 Railroad Avenue, St. Helena, California
Owned by	Southern Pacific
History
Opened	c. 1895
Closed	1929 (passenger); 1975 (freight)
Rebuilt	1996
Services
	Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Saint Helena Depot Saint Helena Depot
Coordinates	38°30′27″N 122°28′16″W / 38.5074620666°N 122.47105666°W
Area	less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	c. 1895
Built by	Southern Pacific
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	96001535
Added to NRHP	January 7, 1997

The Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot is a former train station in St. Helena, California.

History

As European wineries fought a Phylloxera epidemic at the end of the 1800s, Southern Pacific anticipated increased fruit shipments from the Napa wine region and sought to expand their operations in the area. Built to Southern Pacific standard plan No. 18, a two-story combination building,^[2] the Saint Helena Depot opened around 1895. The opening of the Napa Valley Electric Railway in 1904 greatly reduced passenger demand, and services ceased in 1929;^[3] freight continued to be shipped from the depot.

The station building appeared as the fictional Harrington, Vermont train station in the film Pollyanna, shot in 1959.^[4] The rail line and depot were formally abandoned by Southern Pacific in 1975, but the right of way was reactivated with the commencement of the Napa Valley Wine Train excursion service.

The Depot suffered fire damage twice in 1989 and in 1993, but was largely restored after receiving extensive modernization and rehabilitation in 1996 as approved by the National Park Service. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1997.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Bender, Henry E. Jr. (2013). Southern Pacific Lines Standard-Design Depots. Berkeley and Wilton, California: Signature Press. p. 113. ISBN 9781930013339.
^ Yerger, Rebecca (2 September 2018). "Rebecca Yerger Memory Lane: The St. Helena Southern Pacific Depot". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
^ Yerger, Rebecca (13 October 2019). "Rebecca Yerger, Memory Lane: Napa Valley's starring roles". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 11 December 2020.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Bender, Henry E. Jr. (2013). Southern Pacific Lines Standard-Design Depots. Berkeley and Wilton, California: Signature Press. p. 113. ISBN 9781930013339.

[3] Yerger, Rebecca (2 September 2018). "Rebecca Yerger Memory Lane: The St. Helena Southern Pacific Depot". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 11 December 2020.

[4] Yerger, Rebecca (13 October 2019). "Rebecca Yerger, Memory Lane: Napa Valley's starring roles". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 11 December 2020.

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