{"nrhp_refnum":"05000075","name":"West Point Freight Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"305 W. 5th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Point","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":32.874224656000024,"lon":-85.18425315599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick railroad freight depot at 305 West 5th Street in West Point, Troup County, Georgia, beside the CSX (formerly Atlanta & West Point) tracks near the Alabama line. The one-story warehouse was built c. 1887 and a two-story office section was added c. 1899-1900.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good example of a late 19th-century urban brick railroad building that keeps its long, narrow form, thick brick walls and heavy timber roof trusses. It is also significant for transportation as a freight facility on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, which linked Atlanta and Montgomery. It is the only historic railroad building left in West Point.","narrative":"Beside the railroad tracks at the Georgia-Alabama line in West Point stands a brick freight depot made up of a long one-story warehouse and a two-story office block. The warehouse dates to about 1887, and the office section was added around 1899-1900 from plans by the railroad's resident engineer in Montgomery. Its walls are plain, load-bearing brick, and heavy timber roof trusses with iron tie rods let the freight room span without interior posts. The Atlanta and West Point Railroad used it to store and ship goods, and local merchants depended on rail for deliveries. Chattahoochee Valley Railway leased the building from 1974 and altered it for maintenance work, but the walls, roof structure and overall form survive. CSX gave it to the City of West Point in 1998, and it has been vacant since 1992. It is the town's only surviving historic railroad building and one of its oldest, and local groups are pursuing restoration.","period_of_significance":"1887-1954","architect_builder":"Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Resident Engineer's Office, Montgomery, Alabama","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant since the Chattahoochee Valley Railway left in 1992; owned by the City of West Point and awaiting a new use, with restoration efforts under way.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.554159-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000075.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000075/6628d385ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000075/6628d385ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Point_(Georgia)_Freight_Depot.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:West_Point_(Georgia)_Freight_Depot.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209769","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134465632"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/west-point-freight-depot-05000075/"}