{"nrhp_refnum":"95000539","name":"New Freedom Railroad Station, Northern Central Railway","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Front St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Freedom","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.73997344400004,"lon":-76.70076333499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-05-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story frame railroad station in the borough of New Freedom, southern York County, Pennsylvania, on the east side of Front Street beside the Northern Central Railway tracks. It is dated to about 1870 and was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is one of the oldest remaining in York County and one of only two wood stations still standing there. It is said to have shaped the borough's growth by bringing freight and passengers, including peddlers and camp meeting visitors bound for Summit Grove. The station is also linked to the borough's high position on the line, where pusher engines helped trains climb the grade into New Freedom.","narrative":"Built about 1870 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the frame station stands beside the tracks of the Northern Central Railway in New Freedom, a borough in southern York County. It is one and a half stories high, with a gable roof, wide overhanging eaves, and horizontal siding below board-and-batten walls. Its interior held a freight room with a scale, a station office, and a passenger room furnished with benches. Freight from the station supplied local merchants and craftsmen, and trains brought outside buyers into the borough. Peddlers from York and Baltimore arrived by rail, and thousands of camp meeting visitors came by train to Summit Grove. New Freedom sits at the highest point on the line, at 827 feet, and the railroad kept three pusher engines there into the 1930s to help heavy freight trains climb the grade. The station closed about 1960 and has been vacant since, though the nomination notes it has kept its historic character.","period_of_significance":"C. 1870 - 1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Closed as a station about 1960; the building is vacant and suffers from lack of maintenance and water damage from roof leaks.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.35148-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95000539.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000539/38dc670bd3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000539/38dc670bd3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Freedom_Railroad_Station,_Northern_Central_Railway_Nov_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</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:New_Freedom_Railroad_Station,_Northern_Central_Railway_Nov_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994085","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7007702"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/new-freedom-railroad-station-northern-central-railway-95000539/"}