Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 07000209 Architectural style American Craftsman | Built 1925 (1925) Opened 1925 Added to NRHP 29 March 2007 | |
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Location 1030 Spring St., Jeffersonville, Indiana Similar Big Four Bridge, Deam Lake State Recreatio, Howard Steamboat Museum, John F Kennedy Memorial | ||
The Spring Street Freight House is a historic freight house located at Jeffersonville, Indiana. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in May 2007, after being nominated by the Indiana Department of Transportation. It is one of the few railhouses built in the 1920s still standing.
Map of Spring Street Freight House, Jeffersonville, IN 47130, USA
It was built by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (CCC & St. L RR), also known as the Big Four, around 1925. It was built Craftsman-style, and is 1 1/2 stories high. Its foundation and walls are made of wood, and the roof is asphalt shingles. It includes a brick chimney. The property upon which the freight house is upon covers 0.52 acres (2,100 m2).
After the railroad abandoned it in 1963, R.A. Alms & Sons Feed Wholesalers used it from 1970 to 1975. In the 1980s a cable company used it. It is currently unused, but the Ohio River Bridges Project had plans to restore it in 2008 and turn it into its headquarters; as of August 2009 nothing has been done to renovate it.
It was placed on the Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures and the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 2007.
The State of Indiana and Indiana Department of Transportation completed an extensive rehabilitation of the building in 2012.