{"nrhp_refnum":"83001846","name":"Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Passenger Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"148 Maxwell St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05232042500006,"lon":-78.88194333599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick railroad passenger depot in downtown Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, built in 1890 for the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway. It is the sole surviving building of the company's Fayetteville service complex.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the depot documents the late nineteenth-century railroad expansion that affected Fayetteville's economy, and that it is a rare surviving example of Romanesque Revival commercial architecture in the city center. Its arcaded facades, brick construction, porte cochere and unusual onion-shaped lightning rod are cited as distinctive features.","narrative":"Built in 1890 in Fayetteville, the two-story brick passenger depot served the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway, whose headquarters were in the city. It is the only building left from a complex of shops, foundries, freight houses and other railroad buildings the company owned downtown. Its long, narrow form has a center porte cochere, a deep tin-covered hip roof and a fully arcaded exterior of red brick, made by local brickmaker Edgar Allan Poe, in the Romanesque Revival style. A cast-iron onion-shaped lightning rod sits on the roof. The railroad ran from Mount Airy and Greensboro to Wilmington and was reorganized after the company went into receivership in 1894, and its properties were sold in 1898. The depot was used by the new line until about 1900, after which it served commercial tenants, including a grain and feed business. It is regarded as an important reminder of the era when trains were the main means of long-distance travel.","period_of_significance":"c. 1890","architect_builder":"Captain A.B. Williams and T.A. Klutz (contractors); E.A. Poe (brickmaker and supplier)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently housing a commercial occupant; additions on the northeast and southeast ends; the station is slated for adaptive use as a farmers' market under downtown revitalization plans.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.069757-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7176/47717601/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001846.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717601","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville_station_(Cape_Fear_and_Yadkin_Valley_Railway)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18205798"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/cape-fear-and-yadkin-valley-railway-passenger-depot-83001846/"}