{"nrhp_refnum":"77000966","name":"Union Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"95 Union Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lockport","county":"Niagara County","state":"NY","lat":43.17385304100003,"lon":-78.68534237399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story brick railroad station at 95 Union Avenue in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, built in 1889 for the New York Central Railroad.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the station as a good example of late nineteenth century Romanesque Revival depot architecture. Its substantial size reflects Lockport's commercial importance and the role of railroads in the city's growth. After a 1974 fire gutted the interior, listing was justified on the strength of its exterior integrity and its role as a visual and historic landmark.","narrative":"Union Station is a brick railroad depot at 95 Union Avenue in Lockport, on the south side of the New York Central tracks about a block from the Erie Canal. The New York Central Railroad built it in 1889 to handle growing passenger and commercial traffic. Local builder W.E. Houston constructed it, and the firm of Bendinger and Young did the stonework. The one-and-a-half story building rests on a coursed rock-faced stone foundation and features polygonal corner turrets, round Romanesque arches over the loading bays, stone-mullioned windows and parapet gables. The railroad deactivated the station in the 1940s, and it sat unused until 1967, when it was converted into a restaurant that opened in 1971. A fire in December 1974 gutted the interior but left the walls standing. State reviewers judged the exterior intact enough to justify recognition of the building as a Romanesque Revival landmark tied to Lockport's transportation history.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date 1889)","architect_builder":"W.E. Houston (builder); stonework by Bendinger and Young","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Gutted by fire in December 1974; exterior walls remain intact and plans were underway to reconstruct the interior and reestablish a restaurant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.000443-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000966.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000966/db2dd9d12d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000966/db2dd9d12d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Station_Lockport_1_Jun_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Station_Lockport_1_Jun_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001225","name":"Lowertown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/lowertown-historic-district-73001225/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320153","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Lockport,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7886072"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/niagara-county/union-station-77000966/"}