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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1914/00/00 Warren and Wetmore Architect Reed and Stern and Warren and Wetmore design a Mission and Spanish Revival style station for the New York Central Railroad.
1914/00/00 Walsh Construction Co. Architect Hyde Park Station is built by Walsh Construction Co. Lit by gas lamps, the station is wired for electricity but it will not be energized for several years until electric streetlights are installed on River Road. Invention of Gas Lighting
1914/00/00 Reed and Stem Architect Warren and Wetmore and Reed and Stern design Hyde Park Railroad Station to replace a one-story wooden station built by the Central in 1851 by the Hudson River Railroad.
1920/11/04 Ruth Livingston Mills funeral party are carried back to Grand Central Terminal in New York City by a special train. Death of Ruth Livingston Mills
1939/06/11 British Sovereigns, George and Elizabeth, board their royal train and depart Hyde Park. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth State Visit of Canada
1953/00/00 New York Central Railroad Owner The last regularly scheduled passenger service to the Hyde Park departs the station. The New York Central probably offered it as a whistle stop until 1958 when the railroad sold the abandoned station on the town of Hyde Park.

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Particulars for Hyde Park Railroad Station:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Utility Gaslight
Architectural Style Mission-Spanish Revival
Area of Significance Railroad



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 11th September 1981

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Hyde Park Railroad Station
Registry Address: River Rd.
Registry Number: 81000403
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Local
Architect: Warren and Wetmore; Walsh Construction Co.
Architectural Style: Mission-spanish revival
Area in Acres: 2
Contributing Buildings: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: 1914
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Rail-related
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function:

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