Richmond Railroad Station Historic District

The Richmond Railroad Station Historic District is a group of historic commercial buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings the icon of which is the Daniel Burnham-designed Pennsylvania Railroad Station, completed in 1902. It developed between about 1853 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Chicago School style architecture. In addition to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, other notable buildings include the Miller Brothers Block (1890), Jacob H. Lichtenfels Building (1890), Charles Sudhoff Building (1893), Benjamin Starr Building (1896), William H. Alford Building (1905), John Roberts Building (1877), R.F.D. Hose House No. 1 (1890), James Shaw Building (1875), and Richmond / Atlas Underwear Building (1910).[3]

Richmond, IN
inter-city rail station
The former Pennsylvania Railroad station in Richmond.
Location	900 North E Street, Richmond, Indiana USA
History
Opened	1902
Closed	October 1, 1979[1]
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Indianapolis toward Kansas City National Limited Dayton toward New York or Washington, D.C. Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Hagerstown toward Chicago Chicago – Cincinnati Eaton toward Cincinnati Centerville toward St. Louis St. Louis – Columbus New Paris via Piqua toward Columbus Dayton via Dayton toward Columbus Fountain City toward Mackinaw City Mackinaw City – Richmond Terminus
Richmond Railroad Station Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Roughly bounded by Norfolk & Southern RR tracks, N. Tenth St., Elm Pl., N. D St., & Ft. Wayne Ave., Richmond, Indiana
Coordinates	39°50′3″N 84°53′26″W
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Italianate, Classical Revival, etc.
NRHP reference No.	87001808[2]
Added to NRHP	October 8, 1987

It hosted trains on north-south and east-west trajectories through eastern Indiana:

• Amtrak:
  • National Limited - Kansas City - New York, New York
• Pennsylvania Railroad:
  • American - St. Louis - New York, New York
  • Buckeye - Chicago - Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Indianapolis Limited - Indianapolis - New York, New York
  • Northern Arrow - Mackinaw City - Cincinnati, Ohio, with sleeping car sections moved onto connecting trains to St. Louis
  • Penn Texas - St. Louis - New York, New York
  • Southland - Chicago - St. Petersburg, Florida/Sarasota, Florida/Miami, Florida
  • Spirit of St. Louis - St. Louis - New York, New York
  • St. Louisan - St. Louis - New York, New York
  • Union - Chicago - Cincinnati, Ohio

The station in period use by the Penn Central, in May 1970

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and is also a local conservation district designated by the City of Richmond's Historic Preservation Commission.[2]

A previous station at this same location was also a stop on the procession of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Indiana Governor, Oliver P. Morton, boarded the train at this stop, and rode it to Indianapolis, where a procession and showing were held.