Millersburg Passenger Rail Station

The story

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The Millersburg Passenger Rail Station is a Queen Anne style building at 127 W. Center St. in Millersburg, Dauphin County, built in 1898 by Harnon & Jones.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2002 under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in transportation and architecture; its period of significance runs from 1898, when the Northern Central Railway Company dedicated the station, to 1952.

Physical character

The building has a cross-shaped footprint with a gambrel roof over a gable-roofed first floor, and glazed brick walls, laid in common bond, rise from a stone foundation. A deep porch wraps three sides on arched knee braces, and the gable ends were sheathed in fish-scale shingles over half-timbered stucco in 1913. Inside are natural chestnut woodwork and pressed tin paneling on the ceiling and walls. The slate roof was replaced with asphalt shingles.

Historical context

Millersburg's borough council asked for a station from 1872, and the railway bought the lot from the Rathvon family in 1897. The Pennsylvania Railroad took over daily management of the Northern Central in 1911, and passenger service ended in 1960. Brubaker Tool Corporation bought the station in 1961 and donated it to the Historical Society of Millersburg in 1982.