Lebanon station is an historic, American

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

that is located in

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Lebanon County ( ; ) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 143,257. Its county seat is the city of Lebanon. It lies 72 miles northwest of Philadelphia, which is the nearest m ...

. Situated one block south of the

Reading Railroad The Reading Company ( ) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976. Commonly called the Reading Railr ...

's Lebanon station, it was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1974 as the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad Station.

History and notable features

This historic train station was designed by George Watson Hewitt and built in 1885 by the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. It was then expanded in 1912. A two-story, brick,

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and

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building designed in an eclectic

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style that reflects seventeenth-century Flemish, Romanesque, and Chateauesque influences, it features a broad porch roof with ornamental iron brackets. ''Note:'' This includes The Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad opened in 1883, and was acquired by the

Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark PRR), legal name as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy," was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its ...

in 1918. It was added to the

in 1974 as the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad Station. It is located one block south of the

's Lebanon station. Presently, the Lebanon railway station is being used b
Strickler Insurance Agency
The building can be viewed during regular office hours.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lebanon station (Pennsylvania Railroad) Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Railway stations in the United States opened in 1885 Transportation buildings and structures in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Former railway stations in Pennsylvania