{"nrhp_refnum":"76000536","name":"Cloverdale Railroad Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Railroad Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cloverdale","county":"Sonoma County","state":"CA","lat":38.80382437900005,"lon":-123.01262786999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A railroad station building at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and the Northwestern Pacific Railroad tracks in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California, dating to 1872 when rail service reached the town.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the few remaining vertical board-and-batten depots in California and a surviving example of the rural railroad station. It argues the station was the community's communication hub and the shipping point for local wine, lumber, wool, prunes, tan bark, hops and mineral waters. It was also the passenger gateway to Russian River resorts and the Geysers.","narrative":"Built in 1872 when rail service reached Cloverdale, this railroad station sits where Railroad Avenue meets the Northwestern Pacific tracks. It is a one-story frame building about 82 feet long and 32 feet wide, with redwood board-and-batten walls, a peaked roof now covered in corrugated metal, and very wide eaves held up by paired redwood buttresses. Inside, a freight warehouse with a built-in Fairbanks scale occupies half the structure, while the other half holds the agent's office, with its long original counter, a caboose-style bay window for watching the tracks, and the former passenger waiting room. The nomination calls it one of the few board-and-batten depots left in California. It also stresses the station's role in shipping wine grapes, lumber, wool, prunes, tan bark and hops, in carrying mail and telegraph messages, and in moving passengers to Russian River resorts, stage lines and the Geysers.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Frame rural railroad station with board-and-batten siding, rectangular plan, gabled roof and wide overhanging eaves","criteria":[],"status_note":"Windows are boarded for security; the passenger waiting room has been converted to storage and the building is described as largely unchanged apart from minor alterations.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.927268-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/76000536.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862048","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sonoma-county/cloverdale-railroad-station-76000536/"}