{"nrhp_refnum":"83001716","name":"Wantagh Railroad Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1700 Wantagh Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wantagh","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.680367818000036,"lon":-73.51004829599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A railroad complex at 1700 Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh, Nassau County, New York, made up of an 1885 Long Island Railroad station and the 1912 parlor/observation car \"Jamaica\" on a short section of track. The station was moved to its present 1.5-acre county-owned site in 1966.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is a rare, intact example of a small picturesque passenger station of the post-Civil War decades. It is also the only surviving nineteenth-century railroad station on Nassau County's south shore line. The \"Jamaica\" is a representative period parlor car, and the complex recalls the railroad's role in the area's growth and suburban development.","narrative":"At 1700 Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh, Nassau County, a small wooden railroad station and a vintage Long Island Railroad parlor car sit together on a wooded 1.5-acre lot. The one-story station, built in 1885, has beige clapboard walls, a shingled gable roof, a wide shed roof over an outdoor platform, and carved trim. Its interior retains vertical wood paneling, a ticket office with metal grillwork, and a wood-burning stove. When the railroad elevated its tracks in 1966, the station faced demolition; the Wantagh Preservation Society and Nassau County saved it and moved it five blocks north. Beside it rests the 1912 car \"Jamaica,\" eighty feet long, with a solarium, dining room, three staterooms, galley and servant's quarters. It was retired in 1968 and placed on the site in 1972. The station is the only surviving nineteenth-century station on the county's south shore line and recalls how the railroad shaped Wantagh's commercial and residential growth.","period_of_significance":"Station 1885; Jamaica 1912 (1800-1899 and 1900-)","architect_builder":"Station: not stated (NA). Jamaica: built by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the Long Island Railroad.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The station was rehabilitated to its original appearance by the Wantagh Preservation Society and Nassau County and serves as the society's headquarters. The form marks the property as occupied and unoccupied and lists museum use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.537764-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001716.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001716/94486c3c2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001716/94486c3c2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Wantagh_Station.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Wantagh_Station.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000358","name":"Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/jones-beach-state-park-causeway-and-parkway-system-05000358/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319225","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wantagh_Railroad_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/wantagh-railroad-complex-83001716/"}