{"nrhp_refnum":"04001025","name":"Jackson Avenue Subway Station (IRT)","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Jct. of E. 152nd St. and Jackson and Westchester Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bronx","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.816877169000065,"lon":-73.90753368299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture","Art","Engineering","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An elevated, side-platform subway station on the White Plains Road line in the east Bronx, New York, at East 152nd Street and Jackson and Westchester Avenues. It was completed in 1904 as part of the original Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) Contract 1.","why_significant":"The station is significant for transportation, community planning and development, and social history, and for engineering and architectural design. It is a largely intact example of Queen Anne design by Heins & LaFarge, one of a small number of elevated stations in the original IRT system. It also supported the growth of a residential Bronx neighborhood when it opened.","narrative":"Jackson Avenue Station is an elevated subway stop in the east Bronx, built in 1904 for the original Interborough Rapid Transit system. Two control houses sit across the tracks above the intersection of East 152nd Street with Jackson and Westchester Avenues, linked to the street by covered stairways and flanked by long platforms that were lengthened around 1908 and again after World War II. Architects Heins & LaFarge designed the control houses in Queen Anne style, with copper-sheathed wood siding, hipped roofs, ornamental gables and cast-iron fretwork, while engineer William Barclay Parsons handled the structure. The station was one of a small group of elevated stations in the first IRT lines and opened as the neighborhood was becoming a growing residential area. It keeps a high degree of integrity, though the uptown control house was fire-damaged, closed and awaiting restoration when the property was documented. The downtown house remains largely intact, including an unusual cantilevered stair.","period_of_significance":"1904-1908","architect_builder":"Parsons, William Barclay (engineer); Heins, George L. and LaFarge, Christopher G. (architects)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The uptown control house suffered severe fire damage and had been closed for at least a decade, with restoration underway; the downtown control house is largely intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.729045-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001025.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001025/fb1a3deb59-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001025/fb1a3deb59-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson_Av_IRT_WHP_plat_jeh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson_Av_IRT_WHP_plat_jeh.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312122","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Avenue_station_(IRT_White_Plains_Road_Line)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2499351"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/jackson-avenue-subway-station-irt-04001025/"}