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Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Station (Orchard Park, New York)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
07000871

Added to NRHP
  
30 August 2007

Built
  
1911

Opened
  
1911

Architect
  
Henry Hobson Richardson

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Station (Orchard Park, New York)

Location
  
395 South Lincoln Avenue, Orchard Park, New York

Similar
  
Richardson Olmsted Complex, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Station is a historic railway station located at Orchard Park in Erie County, New York. It was constructed in 1911 and served passenger trains until the 1950s.

History

The property includes the passenger depot and brick freight house both constructed in 1911, tracks, a concrete bumper post, a semaphore signal, a portion of the entrance drive, and four period rail cars. The station's plan is based largely on one designed by Henry Hobson Richardson for the 1884 station at Auburndale, Massachusetts, which was demolished in 1961 after 80 years in service.

When the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway (BR&P) was acquired by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Orchard Park Station became a B&O station. The station terminated passenger service in the 1950s before the merger between B&O and C&O into the Chessie System. Freight service operated from Orchard Park until 1979. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Station (Orchard Park, New York) Wikipedia