Boonton | |||||||||||||
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 The New Jersey Transit platform for Boonton in September 2014. Main Street is on the bridge above the station. | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Main Street (CR 511) and Myrtle Avenue (US 202), Boonton, New Jersey 07005 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||
| Station code | 29 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 14 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | September 5, 1867[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 1904[3]–June 1, 1905[4] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 58 (average weekday)[5][6] | ||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station | |||||||||||||
 The former Lackawanna Railroad depot in September 2014. | |||||||||||||
| Location | Myrtle Ave., Main, and Division Sts., Boonton, NJ | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°54′14″N 74°24′23″W / 40.90389°N 74.40639°W | ||||||||||||
| Area | 2.5 acres (1 ha) | ||||||||||||
| Built | 1904 | ||||||||||||
| Architect | Frank J. Nies | ||||||||||||
| Engineer | L. Bush | ||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Prairie School | ||||||||||||
| MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 77000889[7] | ||||||||||||
| NJRHP No. | 2087[8] | ||||||||||||
| Significant dates | |||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | July 13, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Designated NJRHP | October 19, 1976 | ||||||||||||
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Boonton is a NJ Transit station in Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey, United States along the Montclair-Boonton Line. It is located on Main Street (County Route 511), near Myrtle Avenue (U.S. Route 202) and I-287. The original 1905 station was built by architect Frank J. Nies who built other stations for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Unlike most of his stations which tended to be massive Renaissance structures, Boonton station was built as a simple Prairie House design. The station house is now a bar, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1977,[9] two years before the establishment of New Jersey Transit and six years before becoming part of their railroad division.
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 1.
- ^ Lyon 1873, p. 54.
- ^ "Boonton's New Station". The Passaic Daily News. June 22, 1904. p. 5. Retrieved June 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Railroad Notes". The Morris County Chronicle. Morristown, New Jersey. June 6, 1905. p. 1. Retrieved December 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#77000889)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Morris County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. September 29, 2022. p. 1.
- ^ Comstock, Sonya (March 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station". National Park Service. With accompanying five photos
