{"nrhp_refnum":"76001615","name":"Central Railroad of New Jersey Station","other_names":["Jersey Central Station","Jim Thorpe Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Susquehanna St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jim Thorpe","county":"Carbon County","state":"PA","lat":40.86273274700005,"lon":-75.73813896199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one and one-half story red brick railroad station in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, with a three and one-half story cylindrical tower. It was built in 1888 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is significant for transportation history, as a remnant of the rail network that served the anthracite coal region around Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe). It also cites its Queen Anne tower as a surviving example of Victorian-era architectural quality in the community.","narrative":"Built in 1888 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the Central Railroad of New Jersey station is a one and one-half story red brick building with a three and one-half story cylindrical tower on its northeast corner. Its east, west and south facades carry a series of semi-circular door arches with multiple panels, giving an arcade-like appearance beneath a hipped roof that extends over the tracks as a waiting platform. The tower has segmental first-floor openings and a conical roof, and it rises about seventy feet. The station was constructed on Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad property in a town that had become a major anthracite junction, and in 1888 as many as twenty-two passenger trains a day stopped there. Its Queen Anne tower is regarded as a surviving example of Victorian architecture in the community. The station is no longer used as a depot, and it remains a monument to the railroad era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":"1888-1923","architect_builder":"Neast & Company; Wilson Brothers, Philadelphia","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"No longer in use as a railroad depot; the interior is described as in the process of restoration and the structure as sound.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.782638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001615.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001615/e790c35a6b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001615/e790c35a6b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Railroad_of_New_Jersey_Station_Jim_Thorpe_PA_Dec_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</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:Central_Railroad_of_New_Jersey_Station_Jim_Thorpe_PA_Dec_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"77001134","name":"Old Mauch Chunk Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/old-mauch-chunk-historic-district-77001134/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995976","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauch_Chunk_station_(Central_Railroad_of_New_Jersey)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5061742"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/carbon-county/central-railroad-of-new-jersey-station-76001615/"}