Fairlee Railroad Depot


  • Vicinity: Between US 5 and Boston and Maine Railroad Tracks
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The railroad depot building located within the village area of the town of Fairlee is historically significant by virtue of it being an exceptionally well-preserved, first generation structure remaining from the earliest years of railroad development within the State of Vermont. Although now temporarily housing an antique shop, when erected about 1848, it was planned, built, and then successfully functioned for more than one hundred years as a railroad depot until its closing in 1972. Because it is a rural, first generation railroad facility, it possesses an honest, functional and direct simplicity reflective of the era within which it was originally constructed. This was an era then only recently progressed from a period in our nation's development when the long distance overland transportation of goods and people relied, with the exception of canals, upon teams of straining horses harnessed to the wagons and stage coaches that traveled the crude dirt roads and turnpikes of the day. NRHP, 23 July 1998


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1848/00/00 Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad Architect Fairlee Railroad Depot built

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Particulars for Fairlee Railroad Depot:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Railroad
Historic Use Railroad Depot
Area of Significance Transportation



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 23rd July 1998

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Fairlee Railroad Depot
Registry Address: Between US 5 and Boston and Maine Railroad Tracks
Registry Number: 98000906
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Local
Architect: Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers RR
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 4
Contributing Buildings: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State; Local
Area of Significance: Transportation, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1848
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Rail-related
Current Function: Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function: Specialty store

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