{"nrhp_refnum":"10000793","name":"Lee Hall Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9 Elmhurst St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newport News","county":"Newport News","state":"VA","lat":37.196727304000035,"lon":-76.57254664499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame railroad depot built about 1881 in the Stick style at 9 Elmhurst Street in the village of Lee Hall, Newport News, Virginia. It was moved across the tracks in 2009 to avoid demolition.","why_significant":"The depot is the last remaining station from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's expansion into Warwick County and was the social and economic focal point of Lee Hall. It qualifies under Criterion A for Transportation and Criterion C for Architecture as an example of the Stick style and railroad architecture. Its relocation is addressed under Criteria Consideration B.","narrative":"Lee Hall Depot is a frame railroad station built around 1881 in the Stick style in the village of Lee Hall, now part of Newport News, Virginia. It has a central two-story section flanked by one-story wings and a loading platform. A midsection was added in 1893, and a wing with separate waiting rooms for white and Black passengers followed in 1918, when Camp Eustis opened nearby. The depot served the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, whose line to the Atlantic terminus at Newport News opened in 1881 in time for the Yorktown Centennial. It is the only surviving station from the railroad's expansion into Warwick County. Passenger service ended in the late 1970s, and the building fell into disrepair. CSX judged its location too close to the tracks and donated it to the city, which moved it across the tracks in 2009 to prevent demolition. Plans call for restoring it as a museum about the railroad's effect on the community.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1881-1960","architect_builder":"C&O Railway Engineering Department","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Stick/Eastlake","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Dilapidated by 2009; moved that year by the City of Newport News, with utilities disconnected and the building vacant pending restoration as a museum.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.305849-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/6821/41682105/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000793.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000793/601233fcf5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000793/601233fcf5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Petra Holden","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Hall_Depot_(1881),_under_restoration.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Petra Holden</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:Lee_Hall_Depot_(1881),_under_restoration.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682105","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hall_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16894038"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/newport-news/lee-hall-depot-10000793/"}