{"nrhp_refnum":"82003605","name":"New York Central Freight House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"412 E. River St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elyria","county":"Lorain County","state":"OH","lat":41.36978716600004,"lon":-82.09585252699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick railroad freight house at 412 East River Street in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, built in 1910 for the New York Central line. It has a two-story section and a longer one-story section.","why_significant":"The building served as the hub for moving goods in and out of Elyria from 1910 until the early 1970s. It was an unusual two-story freight structure, the only one in Lorain County, with a large capacity for a city of Elyria's size. It is also noted for its simple but elegant design.","narrative":"Built in 1910 at 412 East River Street in Elyria, Ohio, this brick freight house handled goods moving by rail in and out of the city. It has two gable-roofed parts: a two-story block about 40 by 74 feet and a one-story block about 40 by 180 feet with segmental-arched loading doors and bracketed eaves like those on a railroad station. Wooden trusses span the interior. The building served the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern line, later part of the New York Central, and received raw materials and shipped finished products for local factories, including makers of carriage hardware and machine screws. It also housed Railway Express operations and railroad maintenance crews. Freight work continued until the early 1970s. It is the only two-story freight-handling building in Lorain County and was large for a city of Elyria's size. The exterior remains largely intact, although fire and vandalism have damaged the interior and some windows are gone.","period_of_significance":"1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as unoccupied and vacant. The exterior is intact, though some windows are lost and the interior has fire and vandalism damage.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.671385-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003605.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003605/e6b287c2de-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003605/e6b287c2de-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_freight_house_in_Elyria.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_freight_house_in_Elyria.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989889","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138507882"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lorain-county/new-york-central-freight-house-82003605/"}