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Piermont (Erie Railroad station)

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Owned by
  
Village of Piermont

Platforms
  
1 side platform

Opened
  
1873

Station code
  
2007 (Erie Railroad)

Rebuilt
  
2008 (restored)

Line(s)
  
Northern Branch

Tracks
  
removed

Closed
  
1966

Architectural style
  
Stick style

Added to NRHP
  
3 December 2008

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Location
  
50 Ash Street, Piermont, New York 10968

Location
  
50 Ash St., Piermont, New York

Similar
  
Tallman Mountain State Park, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden

Piermont Railroad Station is a historic train station located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1873 by the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, later acquired by the Erie Railroad. It is a 1 12-story, light frame building above a stone foundation. It features Stick Style exterior siding and a Late Victorian interior.

Map of Piermont Pl, Piermont, NY 10968, USA

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

The station is owned by the Village of Piermont. It is maintained by the Piermont Historical Society which has raised funds for and completed a structural and exterior restoration. The restoration included replacing the missing cupola and roof support timbers. Exterior paint colors were selected based on a period newspaper article describing the then new station. Interior renovations are underway. The station is open to the public on selected dates.

An earlier station at Piermont, no longer in existence, was located on the Piermont Branch, which was originally the main line of the New York and Erie Railroad opened in 1841. It was located on the east side of Piermont Avenue about 200 feet north of Paradise Avenue. As early as 1868 it had only one passenger train a day in each direction.

The opening of Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey, constructed from 1886 to 1889, diverted most of the Erie Railroad traffic southward. By 1892 the Piermont station was for freight only. The 1916 station list does not show it at all.

Passenger service ended in 1966.

References

Piermont (Erie Railroad station) Wikipedia