NY 66 at intersection with NY 295, Chatham, New York. County/parish: Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 01, 1974. NRIS 74001225.
1 contributing building.
Union Station served the residents of Chatham, New York, from 1887 to 1972 as a passenger station and until 1976 as a freight station. It was the final stop for Harlem Line trains. It had originally served trains of the Boston and Albany Railroad, then the New York Central Railroad and the Rutland Railway. It served as a junction for service that radiated to Rensselaer, New York, to the northwest; Hudson, New York, to the southwest; Vermont, to the northeast, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts to the east and New York City, to the south.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and currently serves as a branch office of the National Union Bank of Kinderhook. Though it no longer serves as a train station, the rail line alongside it is still a very active mainline for CSX freight rail between Selkirk Yard, south of Albany, and Worcester, Massachusetts.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317099