Chatham station (Massachusetts)
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Location | 153 Depot Road, Chatham, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°41′09″N 69°57′42″W / 41.68575°N 69.96165°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Town of Chatham, Massachusetts[1] | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Chatham Branch | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1887 | ||||||||||
Closed | 1937[2] | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1960 (as a museum)[2] | ||||||||||
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Chatham Railroad Depot | |||||||||||
Location | 153 Depot Road Chatham, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Architect | David Howes[3] | ||||||||||
Architectural style | Queen Anne, Stick, Eastlake | ||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 78000422 | ||||||||||
Added to NRHP | 1978[3] |
Chatham station is a former railroad station located on Depot Road in Chatham, Massachusetts which houses a museum. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978,[3] and it is now home to the Chatham Railroad Museum.
The Chatham Railroad Museum features many railroad artifacts, including the New York Central model locomotives used at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Other displays include original and operating Western Union telegraph equipment, lanterns, badges, signs, tools, timetables, menus and passes, promotional literature, original paintings and prints, calendars, and a restored 1910 caboose.
Service to Chatham was on a line that spurred at Harwich from the mainline to Provincetown.
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Service ended to the station in the 1930s. There is no connected railroad track running there for train service. The former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad line ends in South Dennis and no longer runs to Chatham. The nearest train service is the seasonal CapeFlyer service at the Hyannis Transportation Center in Hyannis.
Plans were made in the first years of the 21st Century to extend the Cape Cod Rail Trail into Chatham and west of Dennis and into Barnstable.
See also
References
- ^ "Chatham, MA - Chatham Railroad Museum". Archived from the original on 2010-10-16. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
- ^ a b "Chatham Chamber of Commerce Museums in Chatham, Cape Cod". Retrieved 2010-10-11.
- ^ a b c Barnstable County Listings on the National Register of Historic Places (Building # #78000422)
External links
Media related to Chatham station (Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons
- Chatham Railroad Museum - official website
- Chatham, Massachusetts
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Old Colony Railroad Stations on Cape Cod
- Stations along Old Colony Railroad lines
- Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1887
- Railway stations closed in 1937
- Railway stations in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Former railway stations in Massachusetts
- Museums in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Railroad museums in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts railway station stubs
- Barnstable County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs