Off FL 808, Boca Raton, Florida. County/parish: Palm Beach.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 24, 1980. NRIS 80000959.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Boca Express Train Museum, operated by the Boca Raton Historical Society, is housed in a restored 1930 Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) train station in Boca Raton, Florida. designed by Chester G. Henninger, built for Clarence H. Geist. It is located at 747 South Dixie Highway, off U.S. 1 (Federal Highway). On October 24, 1980, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
That the building was restored and turned into a museum must be credited to the philanthropist Countess de Hoernle, who bought the abandoned building as a present for her husband.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77843515