{"nrhp_refnum":"91000874","name":"Lehigh Valley Railroad Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"William St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cazenovia","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.932712397000046,"lon":-75.84865685399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story, gable-roofed wooden railroad depot on Williams Street in the village of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, built c. 1894 for the Elmira, Cortland & Northern Railroad using parts of an 1870 depot on the same site.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the depot is architecturally significant as a distinctive, largely intact late-nineteenth-century combined freight and passenger depot in the Eastern Stick Style. It is also significant for transportation history, since the railroad was the village's chief link to other places until the Cherry Valley Turnpike opened in 1927 and carried many summer residents. It is described as the most prominent of the last remaining structures from Cazenovia's railroad era.","narrative":"Built around 1894 on Williams Street in Cazenovia, this wooden railroad depot combined passenger and freight service under one roof. It replaced an 1870 depot on the same site, and the south wall and parts of the west wall of the earlier building were reused. The one-and-one-half-story structure is clapboarded, with broad bracketed eaves, Stick Style detailing, and Queen Anne sash and scalloped shingles. A waiting room, ticket wicket, office and freight room reflect its original layout. Several regional railroads owned it before the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which abandoned it in 1967. Rail service mattered greatly to the village. Until the Cherry Valley Turnpike opened in 1927, trains carried most goods, and from the 1880s they brought summer residents from large cities. Later changes included a new asphalt roof, a redesigned interior hallway and an apartment in the attic. The depot is listed as a well-preserved example of a small-village combined depot and as a reminder of Cazenovia's railroad era.","period_of_significance":"c1894","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Eastern Stick; Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Lower floor used as a photographer's studio and office, with the attic remodeled as an apartment; exterior integrity described as high.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.88703-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91000874.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000874/2529d06522-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000874/2529d06522-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Russ Nelson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cazenovia_station_(2880966360).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Russ Nelson</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:Cazenovia_station_(2880966360).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313532","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazenovia_station_(Lehigh_Valley_Railroad)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6518857"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/lehigh-valley-railroad-depot-91000874/"}