Burlingame Ave. and California Dr., Burlingame, California. County/parish: San Mateo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 19, 1978. NRIS 78000769.
1 contributing building.
Burlingame station is a Caltrain commuter rail station in Burlingame, California. The station building was constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival and Mission Revival architecture styles in 1894, opening for service on October 10 of that year. 18th-century tiles from the Mission San Antonio de Padua at Jolon and the Mission Dolores Asistencia at San Mateo were used for the station roof.
The station was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1971 and added to the National Register of Historic Places as Burlingame Railroad Station in 1978.
Burlingame has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. Until 2008, the station had a southbound side platform and a narrow island platform between the tracks — a common configuration at Southern Pacific stations. This required use of the hold-out rule, where only one train could be at the station at a time. The northbound side platform was completed on February 25, 2008, followed by a new southbound platform on April 1, thus eliminating the hold-out rule.
Between 2019 and 2021, a Caltrain deputy director secretly built an apartment inside the station, including a shower and a gym. He was convicted of misuse of public funds in 2025.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861492