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| Street View, Oct 2018 |
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| Dave Blaze Rail Photography post Essex Freight House Here's a simple little Station Saturday offering. In a rare moment of solitude between trains here's a look at the Valley Railroad Company's depot and headquarters all decked out for the holidays in nice blue hour light. This trim little building is actually a former freight station as Essex lost its passenger depot long long ago. This structure dates from about 1915 and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1994. The following is excerpted from that submission: The freight station is a wood-frame building constructed about 1915 by the New York,New Haven and Hartford Railroad (Photograph #s 1, 2, 3, 4). Other structures on the property include three small contributing wooden outbuildings, built between 1900 and 1915, and a large non-contributing modern metal warehouse built in 1979. Nearby structures and objects include railroad tracks, sidings, switches, and signals. The switches, contributing objects that probably date from about 1900, are manually operated devices to change the position of the track. The signals, also contributng objects, are located on either side of the track at the south end of the yard and consist of round painted circles of metal set on metal standards. These also operate manually. Antique steam engines, passenger cars, and other rolling stock, all dating from the early twentieth century, are based here but are not included in this nomination. They are owned by the Connecticut Valley Railroad, which restored them to active service. Wood-frame factory buildings, dating from the late nineteenth century and devoted to the manufacture of witch hazel, are found to the east and northwest of the station yard, but they are not historically associated with the freight station. Changes to the immediate area over time include the removal of a passenger station, which was nearly identical in appearance to the existing freight house. It was located immediately to the south of the present building and bordered the tracks. Essex, Connecticut Saturday December 21, 2024 Howard Pincus: The original freight house structure was extended north by two windows (about 30 feet), for office space, about 1980-81. |
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| Howard Pincus commented on Dave's post, photo is at source resolution The passenger station, demolished in the early 1930s, had a very distinctive (and different) roof- a flattened “W” in appearance. Photos exist of that station. There were other “flat W” stations on the Saybrook-Hartford line. Essex passenger station, the second one on the site. Gone by 1938. Note the 1892 freight house in the distance. Photo from Tyler City Station website. |
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| EssexSteamTrain_train-boat A destination for some of the train rides is a 1.25 hour cruise on their Becky Thatcher riverboat at Deep River Landing. |
I noticed that Essex also has the Connecticut River Museum.
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| Joe Rodriguez, Oct 2022 |
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