{"nrhp_refnum":"76001214","name":"Poughkeepsie Railroad Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.70730043100008,"lon":-73.93791060199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story railroad station at the foot of Main Street in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, overlooking the East Shore tracks and the Hudson River. It was designed by Warren and Wetmore and completed in 1918.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the station as a monument to Beaux-Arts taste and to the prosperity of Poughkeepsie in the early twentieth century. It was modeled on Grand Central Station in New York City and marked the culmination of almost seventy years of growth in the city's transportation industry. It was the city's third railroad station on or near the site.","narrative":"Overlooking the Hudson River and the East Shore tracks near lower Main Street, this four-story railroad station in Poughkeepsie was built between 1914 and 1918 to designs by Warren and Wetmore, the New York firm that also designed Grand Central Station. Steel, concrete and brick form the structure, with decorative brickwork, a carved stone cornice, tall arched windows and a tile gable roof. Inside, a single large waiting room keeps its original chandeliers, chestnut benches and exposed chestnut rafters, and a 420-foot elevated walkway once led passengers to Main Street. The building was the city's third station on or near the site and capped almost seventy years of growth in local rail transportation. Newspapers at its 1918 opening treated it as a symbol of the city's accomplishment. It was listed for its Beaux-Arts design and its place in Poughkeepsie's transportation history, and local advocates saw it as a possible future transit center.","period_of_significance":"1914-1918","architect_builder":"Warren and Wetmore","architectural_style":"Beaux-Arts Classical (also noted as Second Renaissance Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in use as a railroad station, in good condition and unaltered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.617331-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001214.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001214/95ac13021f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001214/95ac13021f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poughkeepsie_train_station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Poughkeepsie_train_station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317440","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097340"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/poughkeepsie-railroad-station-76001214/"}