James St. at Penn Central RR tracks, N side, Newport, Delaware. County/parish: New Castle.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 21, 1994. NRIS 93001515.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Newport Railroad Station was a historic railway station located at Newport in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1908 and was a 44 feet, 4 inches, long, one-story frame building in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. It had a large overhanging hipped roof with exposed rafter ends. It was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad and closed in the late 1940s. It was demolished between 1995 and 2002.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. A transportation study considered the location for a new commuter rail station along SEPTA Regional Rail's Wilmington/Newark Line during the mid-1990s.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75324571