{"nrhp_refnum":"79002156","name":"Coraopolis Railroad Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Neville Ave. and Mill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coraopolis","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.518990675000055,"lon":-80.16354267399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story suburban passenger railroad station in Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, designed in 1895 by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. It is built of buff Roman brick and red sandstone and is in the Romanesque Revival style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is significant as an example of the architecture of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge in the Pittsburgh area. It notes the firm's frequent use of Richardsonian Romanesque design and the choice of a monumental style for a small suburban station, which reflects the importance of the P&LE commuter line. The station is one of three similar stations built for the railroad.","narrative":"Built in 1895 to designs by the Boston firm Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, this one-story suburban passenger station in Coraopolis is executed in the Romanesque Revival style. Its buff Roman brick walls are trimmed with red sandstone, which emphasizes the round-arched windows, the rustication below the off-set, and the carved details. A two-story tower projects onto the platform side, and a large semicircular arch marks the entrance, balanced by a triple-arch motif on the rear gable. The roof is slate, with bracketed overhangs that repeated the design of the original platform covering. A porte cochere was added on the Mill Street side in 1916. The original interior plan, with its ticket office in the tower and separate waiting rooms, has been altered only slightly. The station is regarded as a notable example of the firm's work in the Pittsburgh area, and of the monumental Romanesque style applied to a small suburban depot.","period_of_significance":"1895","architect_builder":"Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge (architect)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The station is used by an automobile equipment dealer.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.802457-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002156.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002156/7c05e80992-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002156/7c05e80992-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Crolinson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROLINSON_20151112_7399-2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crolinson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROLINSON_20151112_7399-2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995154","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraopolis_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5169653"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/coraopolis-railroad-station-79002156/"}