Richmond_Railroad_Station_Historic_District Knowpia

Richmond, IN
Richmond, IN
inter-city rail station
	The station in period use by the Penn Central, in May 1970
General information
Location	900 North E Street, Richmond, Indiana
History
Opened	1902
Closed	October 1, 1979
Former services
	Dayton via Dayton toward Pittsburgh
	Richmond Railroad Station Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	The former Pennsylvania Railroad station in Richmond.
Location	Roughly bounded by Norfolk & Southern RR tracks, N. Tenth St., Elm Pl., N. D St., & Ft. Wayne Ave., Richmond, Indiana
Coordinates	39°50′3″N 84°53′26″W / 39.83417°N 84.89056°W
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Italianate, Classical Revival, etc.
NRHP reference No.	87001808
Added to NRHP	October 8, 1987

The Richmond Railroad Station Historic District is a group of historic commercial buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana.

Historic District edit

The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings the icon of which is the Daniel Burnham-designed Pennsylvania Railroad Station, completed in 1902. It developed between about 1853 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Chicago School style architecture. In addition to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, other notable buildings include the Miller Brothers Block (1890), Jacob H. Lichtenfels Building (1890), Charles Sudhoff Building (1893), Benjamin Starr Building (1896), William H. Alford Building (1905), John Roberts Building (1877), R.F.D. Hose House No. 1 (1890), James Shaw Building (1875), and Richmond / Atlas Underwear Building (1910).^[3]

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and is also a local conservation district designated by the City of Richmond's Historic Preservation Commission.^[2]

Railroad station edit

It hosted trains on north–south and east–west trajectories through eastern Indiana:

Amtrak:
- National Limited - Kansas City–New York, New York
Pennsylvania Railroad:
- American - St. Louis–New York, New York
- Buckeye - Chicago–Cincinnati, Ohio
- Indianapolis Limited - Indianapolis–New York, New York
- Northern Arrow - Mackinaw City–Cincinnati, Ohio, with sleeping car sections moved onto connecting trains to St. Louis
- Penn Texas - St. Louis–New York, New York
- Southland - Chicago–St. Petersburg, Florida/Sarasota, Florida/Miami, Florida
- Spirit of St. Louis - St. Louis–New York, New York
- St. Louisan - St. Louis–New York, New York
- Union - Chicago–Cincinnati, Ohio, and a section to Columbus via Dayton

A previous station at this same location was also a stop on the procession of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Indiana Governor, Oliver P. Morton, boarded the train at this stop, and rode it to Indianapolis, where a procession and showing were held.^{[citation needed]}

References edit

^ "Burger Overturns Court Order Extending National Limited's Life". The Indianapolis Star. October 1, 1979. p. 6. Retrieved January 12, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2016. Note: This includes Katherine M. Jourdan (October 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Richmond Railroad Station Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2016., Quad map, and Accompanying photographs