{"nrhp_refnum":"03000489","name":"Brockwayville Passenger Depot, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Alexander Street at Fourth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brockway","county":"Jefferson County","state":"PA","lat":41.251271151000026,"lon":-78.79318853999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick railroad passenger station of about 2,320 square feet in Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, on a 1.047-acre tract northwest of the central business district. It was built in 1913 for the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the depot is significant under Criterion A for transportation, as a marker of the development of rail service in a lumbering and coal community, and under Criterion C as a locally distinctive example of rural station architecture. It is described as the last surviving passenger depot in Jefferson County.","narrative":"Built in 1913 of brick on a poured concrete foundation, the Brockwayville station is a rectilinear, one-story depot with a hipped roof of red barrel-vaulted ceramic tile from the Ludowici-Celadon Company of New Lexington, Ohio. Its flat-topped windows have radiating brick voussoirs and stone keystones, and its six-over-one wood sash windows are largely intact. Overhanging eaves shelter the platform, and the interior keeps its built-in benches, metal-grilled ticket window, and a Dutch door for baggage checking. The building replaced an earlier wood depot of the early 1880s. It served passengers on routes to New York, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, and also served executives of the local glass company. Passenger service ended in 1949. The nomination argues the station is significant for its link to rail transportation in a north-central Pennsylvania community and as a locally distinctive example of rural railroad architecture. It is regarded as the last surviving passenger station in Jefferson County.","period_of_significance":"1912-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for many years and boarded up after railroad use ceased around 1980; the building was acquired in 2002 by the Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging, which planned to convert it to a senior citizen service center.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.056475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03000489.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000489/6b7f44adec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000489/6b7f44adec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dkccmoore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BR%26P_Depot_-_Brockwayville,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dkccmoore</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:BR%26P_Depot_-_Brockwayville,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994775","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockway_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/jefferson-county/brockwayville-passenger-depot-buffalo-rochester-and-pittsburgh-railroad-03000489/"}