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Purcellville Train Station

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Area
  
0.1 acres (0.040 ha)

NRHP Reference #
  
10000307

Built
  
1904 (1904)

VLR #
  
286-5001-0233

Purcellville Train Station

Location
  
200 N 21st St, Purcellville, Virginia

Architectural style
  
board and batten vernacular

Purcellville Train Station is a historic railway station located at Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia adjacent Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail. The Southern Railway constructed the station in 1904. The station is a one-story, rectangular frame building with a hipped roof and deeply overhanging eaves supported by triangular knee braces. It was a station on the Washington and Old Dominion Railway and later, the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad from 1912 until the line closed in 1968, with passenger service ceasing in 1951.

The Purcellville Preservation Association restored the station in 2002. The town of Purcellville maintains the station as a public meeting facility, museum, and public restrooms, under the purview of the town's Train Station Steering & Oversight Committee. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 2010.

References

Purcellville Train Station Wikipedia