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Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad Station (Central Railroad of New Jersey Station)

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Central Railroad of New Jersey Station
1868, attributed to Sidney and Merry. 33 S. Wilkes-Barre Blvd.
  • (Photo by William E. Fischer, Jr.)
  • renovated 2022 (William E. Fischer, Jr.)
  • renovated 2022 (William E. Fischer, Jr.)

This last vestige of Wilkes-Barre's railroad era is a picturesquely massed Italianate brick depot. Its cupola-topped roofline resembles that of the contemporary Wyoming Valley House (c. 1868, demolished), once Wilkes-Barre's principal hotel, suggesting that the same Philadelphia-based architects handled the design. The station has suffered numerous renovations.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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George E. Thomas, "Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad Station (Central Railroad of New Jersey Station)", [Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-LU2.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 461-461.

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