{"nrhp_refnum":"76001480","name":"Lowellville Railroad Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Penn Central RR.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lowellville","county":"Mahoning County","state":"OH","lat":41.03538691500006,"lon":-80.53690344499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small frame railroad passenger depot on the Penn Central Railroad line in Lowellville, Mahoning County, Ohio, built in 1880 and now owned by the city.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a modest, well-preserved example of the vanishing small-town railroad station, built to serve an important industrial town of the Mahoning Valley. Its design is described as functional and attractive without pretension, with an affinity to the Stick Style. It also reflects the rail link between the Great Lakes and the Pittsburgh industrial area.","narrative":"This small frame railroad depot in Lowellville, Ohio, was built in 1880 to serve a town at the southeastern end of the Mahoning Valley's industrial district. The building is a plain long rectangle on a stone foundation, with a slight projection on the south side for the telegraph office. Its walls have vertical-board wainscoting below and horizontal clapboard above, and a low hip roof with wide eaves carried on long diagonal brackets. The west end held the baggage room, the east end the passenger waiting room, and the ticket and telegraph office sat between them. The original interior finish of vertical tongue-and-groove boards survives, though deteriorated. The station was part of the Lawrence Division of the Ashtabula, Youngstown and Pittsburg Railroad, later absorbed into larger railroad systems. Trains used it until the early 1950s. It was listed as a modest, well-preserved example of a vanishing building type. The city now owns it and uses it for storage, while residents have studied possible new uses.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Stick Style (affinity noted)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Lowellville and currently used for storage; a local community effort has been studying adaptive use. Railroad use continued until the early 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.33331-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001480.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001480/3ecf5f5bcf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001480/3ecf5f5bcf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowellville_Railroad_Station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowellville_Railroad_Station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990160","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138562152"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/mahoning-county/lowellville-railroad-station-76001480/"}