Five Corners Real Estate

USA / New York / Scarsdale /
 interesting place, Italianate style (architecture), historical building, office/offices

Former Heathcote Station building for the New York, Boston & Westchester Railroad. Designed by Reed & Stem in the Italian Renaissance style between 1910 and 1911, this station would be abandoned upon the railway's closure in 1937. The tracks would be torn up, and the catenary towers removed by 1941, but the platforms, platform canopies would not be removed until some time after 1954. The cut in which the tracks passed would become the "Heathcote Bypass" roadway.

The station house would be requisitioned as the facility of the volunteer Ambulance Corps. The station is now office space, a condition of the acquisition being to restore the building's outer appearance to its original form [which includes the removal of the garages in which ambulances were housed].

There was a freight spur branching off the easternmost track, which is long gone. It is said, however, that coal, cinders, centenary tower remains, and even wire have been found in the area..

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Coordinates:   40°59'4"N   73°46'31"W
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