{"nrhp_refnum":"83001651","name":"Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Freight Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"English St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westfield","county":"Chautauqua County","state":"NY","lat":42.33119010200005,"lon":-79.57605238399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story brick railroad freight depot on English Street Extension in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York, built in 1904 by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare, intact surviving example of a freight depot typical of small rural and suburban communities. It is associated with the railroad's nearby passenger station and with early twentieth-century rural development in western New York and Chautauqua Institution. It is the only extant twentieth-century railroad freight depot in Westfield.","narrative":"Brick walls, arched freight openings and broad bracketed eaves define this freight depot on English Street Extension in Westfield, Chautauqua County. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad built it in 1904, at the same time as its passenger station about a quarter mile to the southwest. The one-and-one-half-story building sits on 1.4 acres beside the railroad tracks in a sparsely populated industrial area, four blocks northwest of the Main Street commercial district. Stepped corbels, brick pilasters, sandstone lintels and sills, and circular vent holes in the gable ends give the structure its character. The nomination values it as a rare, intact example of a freight depot typical of small rural and suburban communities, and as the only surviving twentieth-century railroad freight depot in Westfield. It also reflects early twentieth-century rural development in western New York and the link to Chautauqua Institution. The building is vacant, and its freight platform is deteriorated.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and privately owned; the freight platform on the west side is in deteriorated condition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.26296-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001651.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001651/05aaf8383d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001651/05aaf8383d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestfieldNY_FreightDepot.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</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:WestfieldNY_FreightDepot.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312256","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Shore_%26_Michigan_Southern_Freight_Depot_(Westfield,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6477726"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/chautauqua-county/lake-shore-and-michigan-southern-freight-depot-83001651/"}