{"nrhp_refnum":"75001638","name":"Harrisburg Central Railroad Station and Trainshed","other_names":["Penn Central Railroad Station and Sheds"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Aberdeen St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.26207216700004,"lon":-76.87769736278868,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-11","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1976-12-08","areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story brick passenger railroad station with associated train sheds in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, built 1885-1887 by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The station and its sheds are located to the rear of the passenger station at the railroad's Harrisburg location.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the station is the most important of the few remaining structures from the years when Harrisburg was a major stop on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Main Line. The train sheds are described as among the largest of their period when built and among the few still existing, and their Fink roof trusses are considered rare, particularly for the use of wooden members combined with steel.","narrative":"Built between 1885 and 1887 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the passenger station in Harrisburg is a brick building of two and one-half stories with a gable roof, originally about 166 feet long and 60 feet wide. Its interior held gentlemen's and ladies' waiting rooms, a restaurant and a ticket office. Fire in 1904 gutted much of the building, and it was rebuilt with a third story and a gambrel roof, and later extended on both ends in 1911 and 1937. Two train sheds stand behind it, the first begun in 1885 and later lengthened to about 540 feet. Their steel and timber trusses are of the Fink type, a form derived from an inverted kings-post truss, and the nomination treats them as rare survivors of their kind. The station and sheds are cited as the most important remaining reminders of Harrisburg's years as a major stop on the Main Line.","period_of_significance":"1885-1887","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Altered over time, with the station severely damaged by fire in 1904 and completely remodeled; the form rates its condition as fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.917499-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/75001638.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001638/0fb027375f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001638/0fb027375f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Niagara","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrisburg_Transportation_Center,_Sept_2012.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara</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:Harrisburg_Transportation_Center,_Sept_2012.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995811","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg_Transportation_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5665326"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/harrisburg-central-railroad-station-and-trainshed-75001638/"}