{"nrhp_refnum":"86000488","name":"Railroad Terminal Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Intersection of Chenango St. and Erie-Lackawanna RR tracks","address_restricted":false,"city":"Binghamton","county":"Broome County","state":"NY","lat":42.104720264000036,"lon":-75.90603482530274,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 18 acres in Binghamton, Broome County, New York, a few blocks north of downtown, made up of 19 contributing brick railroad, warehouse and commercial buildings built between 1876 and 1910, with a major addition in 1932.","why_significant":"It was the center of Binghamton's railroad-oriented commerce and industry between 1876 and 1932. It is a rare and largely intact concentration of architecturally distinguished railroad buildings, warehouses and commercial-residential buildings. Few other upstate New York cities retain terminal areas with this degree of integrity.","narrative":"Several blocks north of downtown Binghamton, a cluster of brick buildings records the city's years as a railroad hub. The district holds 19 contributing buildings put up between 1876 and 1910, plus a 1932 addition, arranged around the rail yards that cross Chenango Street. They include the 1901 Lackawanna passenger station with its Italian Renaissance campanile, freight houses for the Erie and the Delaware and Hudson, the six-story Kilmer Building of 1903, the 1910 Newell and Truesdall grocery warehouse, and rows of Victorian warehouses and commercial blocks with corbelled cornices and cast-iron storefronts. Four railroads, the Erie, the Syracuse Binghamton and New York, the Delaware and Hudson, and the Lackawanna, built stations and freight houses close together here. The district matters as the commercial and industrial center of that rail era and as an unusually intact group of buildings. Passenger service has ended and most commercial freight moved to trucks, leaving the railroad buildings vacant or used for storage.","period_of_significance":"1876-1932","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Romanesque and Queen Anne influenced), Italian Renaissance, Beaux-Arts classicism, Neoclassical and Neo-Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"The railroad buildings are now vacant or largely used for storage; many commercial buildings are vacant or underused. Most buildings survive with moderate to excellent integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.231689-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86000488.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000488/f022fcad8f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000488/f022fcad8f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railroad_Terminal_Historic_District_Binghamton_NY_Oct_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railroad_Terminal_Historic_District_Binghamton_NY_Oct_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316599","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Terminal_Historic_District_(Binghamton,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7284079"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/broome-county/railroad-terminal-historic-district-86000488/"}