305 MacCorkle Ave., Charleston, West Virginia. County/parish: Kanawha.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 26, 1984. NRIS 84000782.
Part of South Hills MRA (NRIS 64000966).
1 contributing building.
Charleston station is an active intercity railroad station in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. Located on MacCorkle Avenue Southeast, the station services trains of Amtrak's Cardinal between New York Penn Station and Chicago Union Station. The two trains (nos. 50 (eastbound) and 51 (westbound)), make stops in Charleston on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Charleston station contains a single 800-foot (240 m) concrete side platform and has a station depot that provides a waiting room for customers.
The station depot, built by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1905, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86534400