Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (Rochester, New York)
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Lehigh Valley Railroad Station is a historic railway station located at Rochester
Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

 in Monroe County, New York
Monroe County, New York
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the city of Rochester....

. It was built in 1905 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
The Lehigh Valley Railroad was one of a number of railroads built in the northeastern United States primarily to haul anthracite coal.It was authorized April 21, 1846 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and incorporated September 20, 1847 as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad...

 and consists of a passenger station and freight terminal. It is dramatically sited above the Johnson-Seymour mill race and Genesee River
Genesee River
The Genesee River is a North American river flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York. The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides hydroelectric power for downtown Rochester....

. The passenger station is a brick, hip-roofed, -story structure with French Renaissance overtones. The freight terminal is a 1-story brick structure. The station provided passenger service until the 1950s when the Lehigh Valley Railroad lines were abandoned.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1985. The buildings now house Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Dinosaur Bar-b-que
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is a restaurant, blues venue, and biker bar chain in New York. Opened in 1988 on Willow Street in downtown Syracuse, it specializes in authentic barbecue, using a wood-fueled barbecue pit...

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