{"nrhp_refnum":"72001177","name":"Erie Railroad Station","other_names":["Starrucca House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S bank of Susquehanna River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Susquehanna","county":"Susquehanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.945304246000035,"lon":-75.60801616899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former railroad station-hotel built by the Erie Railroad in 1865 at Susquehanna, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, known as the Starrucca House. It is a two and a half story brick building with a large hip roof and dormers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant as a cultural and industrial landmark and as a fine architectural work. It is presented as one of the few American railroad station-hotels of its period and as a noteworthy neo-Gothic building, including a full-height interior dining hall. It is described as the only known surviving example of its type.","narrative":"Built in 1865 by the Erie Railroad at Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, this two and a half story brick building combined a railway station with a hotel, a building type the nomination describes as rare among American railroads of its time. Its neo-Gothic design includes a hip roof with many dormers, trefoil windows, two large front gables that served as entrances, and centre-pointed windows. Inside, a dining hall 120 feet long ran the full height of the building, with ribbed vaulting and carved wooden balconies. Hotel rooms occupied the second and third floors beside it. The building was altered in the twentieth century, when its roof towers and part of the platform roof were removed and the dining hall was floored over, though the original vaulting remains in the attic. It is regarded as the only known survivor of its type, which is the main reason for its listing.","period_of_significance":"1865","architect_builder":"E.J.M. Derrick (architect, attributed); Erie Railroad (builder)","architectural_style":"Neo-Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Altered in the twentieth century; the Lombard towers and part of the platform roof were removed, and the dining hall was floored over. Condition checked as deteriorated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.853924-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72001177.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001177/9087dd4f7b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001177/9087dd4f7b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Adam Moss","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susquehanna_Station_-_May_2011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Moss</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susquehanna_Station_-_May_2011.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998325","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susquehanna_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7649288"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/susquehanna-county/erie-railroad-station-72001177/"}