Brick Church | |||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform and 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | November 19, 1836[1] | ||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | December 1880[2] April 21, 1921–December 18, 1922[3] | ||||||||||||||
Electrified | September 22, 1930[4] | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2017 | 2,041 (average weekday)[5][6] | ||||||||||||||
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Brick Church Station | |||||||||||||||
Location | Brick Church Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°W | ||||||||||||||
Area | 2 acres (0.8 ha) | ||||||||||||||
Built | 1921 | ||||||||||||||
Architect | Nies, F.J. | ||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival | ||||||||||||||
MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 84002636[7] | ||||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||||
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Brick Church is an active commuter railroad station in the city of East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. The station, one of two in East Orange, is located a block away from the former site of the Brick Presbyterian Church (later, Temple for Unified Christians Brick Church), for which the neighborhood takes its name, designed with brick romanesque architecture.[8] The other station, located 0.6 miles (0.97 km) to the east, is the namesake East Orange stop. Trains from the station head east on New Jersey Transit's Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch to New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal while westbound trains service stops out to Gladstone and Hackettstown. Like its sister station, Brick Church contains three tracks and two platforms (a side platform and an island platform). However, it is not accessible for the handicapped.
Railroad service through East Orange began with the opening of the Morris and Essex Railroad on November 19, 1836 to Orange. The railroad stopped at the residence of local attorney Matthias Ogden Halsted each day for him to commute. He soon provided a station for commuters to use as well as himself, and hired a family to operate it, without charging the railroad. Locals helped fund and build a new depot in 1880.[2] The current station opened on December 18, 1922 when the railroad tracks through the city were elevated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The brick headhouse at Brick Church station were added to the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[9][10]