Forestville station

	Forestville Passenger Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The Station circa 1912
Location	171 Central Street, Forestville, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°40′24″N 72°53′54″W / 41.67333°N 72.89833°W
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1881
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	78002862
Added to NRHP	April 19, 1978

The Forestville Passenger Station is a historic railroad station at 171 Central Street in Forestville, a village of Bristol, Connecticut. It is a small single-story wood frame structure, with a bracketed cornice and a hipped roof topped by a louvered cupola with finial. The station was built in 1881 by the New York and New England Railroad on a railroad line originally owned by the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad. It was a key element of the prosperity of the village, benefiting from many daily passenger rail stops. Service to the area ended in 1960.^[2]

The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1978.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "NRHP nomination for Forestville Passenger Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-12-14.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Forestville Passenger Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-12-14.

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