Cornwall Bridge station is a former train station in

Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut Cornwall Bridge is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the hamlets of Cornwall Bridge and Calhoun Corners in the towns of Cornwall and Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is primarily in the southwestern corner of the ...

. The station building was built in the 1880s to serve passengers on the

Housatonic Railroad The Housatonic Railroad ( ; ) is a Class III railroad operating in southwestern New England and eastern New York. It was chartered in 1983 to operate a short section of ex-New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in northwestern Connecticut, a ...

. Passenger service on the line ended in 1971, at which time

Penn Central The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976. Penn Central combined three traditional corporate rivals, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and the ...

auctioned off the station. The following year, the station received a

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 ...

designation.

History

The station, a

Stick style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...

wood-frame structure, was built by the

in the 1880s to replace an earlier station. The Housatonic was acquired by the

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to 1968. Founded by the merger of ...

in 1892. The New Haven Railroad was acquired by the

Penn Central Railroad The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Railroad classes, class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976. Penn Central combined three traditional corporate rivals, the Pennsylvania Railroad, ...

in 1969, which went bankrupt by 1970. The station was added to the

on April 26, 1972, as Cornwall Bridge Railroad Station.

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{{Berkshire Rail Line Stations Cornwall, Connecticut Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Transportation buildings and structures in Litchfield County, Connecticut Former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad stations National Register of Historic Places in Litchfield County, Connecticut Former railway stations in Connecticut

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