Connellsville Union Passenger Depot

900 W. Crawford Ave., Connellsville, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Fayette.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 29, 1996. NRIS 96000319.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Connellsville Pittsburgh &amp
  • Lake Erie Station

From Wikipedia:

Connellsville Union Passenger Depot

Connellsville Union Passenger Depot, also known as the Connellsville Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, is a historic railway station located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1911 and 1912 by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and Western Maryland Railway. It is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular brick building measuring 109 feet by 28 feet. It features a three-story tower, wide overhanging eaves, and hipped roofs on the building and tower covered in blue-green Spanish terra cotta tiles. It is in an American Craftsman style of architecture. It ceased use as a passenger station in 1939, after which it housed a car dealership and auto parts store. It was purchased by the Youghiogheny Opalescent Glass Company in the spring of 1995.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995132

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