{"nrhp_refnum":"01000925","name":"Starlight Station, New York, Ontario, and Western Railway","other_names":["Buckingham Township Municipal Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"O & W Rd. NE of Depot Hill Rd, Starlight","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buckingham Township","county":"Wayne County","state":"PA","lat":41.903935929000056,"lon":-75.32917702299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame former railroad station of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway in Buckingham Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, built in 1889 and combining station office, waiting room, freight space and an upstairs agent's apartment.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is significant for its association with the O&W's Scranton Division and its role in carrying coal to market, and for its architecture as a rare intact example of the single design used for the O&W's Wayne County stations. It is described as one of only two remaining examples of that design.","narrative":"Built in 1889 on the Scranton Division of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, this two-story wood frame station in Buckingham Township combined a passenger waiting room, station agent's office and freight room on the ground floor with an apartment for the agent's family above. Its design followed a single plan by Dietrich and Company of New York City, used for all the line's stations in Wayne County, and it has hipped roofs, a canopy roof between the stories, layered siding and decorative brackets beneath wide eaves. The station served as the local post office and the social and economic center of the community until the 1930s and 1950s, when the railroad declined amid competition from trucks, automobiles and natural gas pipelines. Bought by the township in 1968, it was converted for municipal use in the 1970s. Only this station and Lakewood remain of the Dietrich stations in the county, and this one is regarded as the more recognizable example.","period_of_significance":"1889-1951","architect_builder":"Dietrich and Company (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted by the township around 1976 for municipal use as a meeting space, township office and garage; the second floor is described as unused.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.129069-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000925.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000925/40dddb3623-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000925/40dddb3623-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vonsky87","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O%26W_Depot,_Starlight_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vonsky87</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O%26W_Depot,_Starlight_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994831","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7602083"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/wayne-county/starlight-station-new-york-ontario-and-western-railway-01000925/"}