{"nrhp_refnum":"02000141","name":"Yonkers Trolley Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"92 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.934182691000046,"lon":-73.90288351599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Renaissance Revival trolley car barn with an attached power substation at 92 Main Street, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, built in 1903 for the Yonkers Railroad Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an imposing and unusual example of turn-of-the-century industrial architecture in Westchester County. It is also the most important and only surviving building from the Yonkers trolley system, and the last trolley car barn in the county. The architect used the sloping lot and freight elevators to store trolley cars on three levels.","narrative":"Built in 1903 for the Yonkers Railroad Company, this massive brick building at Main Street and Buena Vista Avenue in Yonkers served as the trolley system's car barn, offices and power substation. It has a three-story steel-frame car barn with terra cotta floor arches, plus an attached two-story substation. The exterior features brown iron-spotted brick, granite sills, terra cotta trim and a stepped parapet. Designed by A. V. Porter, it used the steeply sloping site and a large elevator so that trolley cars could be housed on all three floors. It is the last remaining trolley barn in Westchester County and the only surviving building from the Yonkers trolley system, which carried about 70,000 passengers a day by 1922 before buses replaced it in the early 1950s. The city used the building for its Street Lighting Bureau until 1975, and it has been vacant since. The exterior remains largely intact, though many windows are lost and the interior has been heavily altered.","period_of_significance":"1903","architect_builder":"Porter, A. V.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant since 1975, when city offices left the building; many windows are missing or damaged and boarded up, and interiors were altered in the early 1950s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.786788-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02000141.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000141/b485208fd8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000141/b485208fd8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Yonkers,_NY,_trolley_barn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Old_Yonkers,_NY,_trolley_barn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323314","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers_Trolley_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8055090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/yonkers-trolley-barn-02000141/"}