Allamuchy Freight House

The Allamuchy Freight House is located in Allamuchy Township, Warren County, New Jersey, United States. This freight house was built in 1906 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2002. It was built by the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway and is the only freight house on the line still extant.

Allamuchy Freight House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
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Location	Route 612, Allamuchy Township, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.932057°N 74.820204°W / 40.932057; -74.820204
Area	1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built	1906
NRHP reference No.	02001056[1]
NJRHP No.	3940[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 23, 2002
Designated NJRHP	July 22, 2002

The structure is located approximately 3000 feet north of the County Road 613 intersection at Alphano Road. It is roughly four miles south of the intersection of County Road 519 and County Road 617. There is a historic highway marker at the entrance to the site.

History

Allamuchy Station

The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway built a rail line through Allamuchy in 1882. A passenger station for Allamuchy was built in 1885 and the freight house was built in 1906. Passenger service on the rail line ended in 1933 and the passenger station was removed in 1934, though President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Allamuchy in 1944 via his private railway car, the Ferdinand Magellan.[3] The Lehigh & Hudson River Railway was merged into Conrail in 1976 and the freight house was abandoned. The freight house was in severe disrepair when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and a project to restore the building was started in 2004 by the New Jersey Midland Railroad Historical Society and the Allamuchy Township Environmental Committee. The project is now part of the Save America's Treasures partnership. There are also plans to rebuild the demolished passenger station building.[4]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, New Jersey

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Warren County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. January 10, 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2011. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
3. "Freight House repairs are just the beginning". allamuchynj.org. Archived from the original on 2011-02-20. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
4. Restoration Project: Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Freight House, Allamuchy, NJ, Accessed June 11, 2010.