Greenport Railroad Station

Greenport's railroad terminal sits on a 4.8-acre parcel beside the harbor at the end of the Long Island Railroad's main line. The surviving resources are a brick passenger station, a brick freight depot, a turntable and track, all dating to a major building campaign in 1892. The passenger station has a hipped slate roof with broad bracketed eaves, arched doorways and stone window surrounds, and its original ticket office and waiting room layout remain. The turntable, enlarged between 1917 and 1928, is the only one in Suffolk County. The line opened in 1844 as part of a rail and steamship route toward Boston, and later carried farm produce, summer visitors and freight, employing more than fifty people by 1900. Activity declined after about 1930 as automobiles and trucks took over, and the turntable was last used in 1976. The complex was listed as one of the most intact late nineteenth century railroad terminals on Long Island. The village plans restoration and a transportation museum.