Parsons station is a historic

railroad depot A train station, railroad station, or railway station is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track, and a station building providing such an ...

located at

Parsons, West Virginia Parsons is the largest city in and county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,322 at the 2020 census. Parsons is located at the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork, forming the head of the ...

. It was built by the

Western Maryland Railroad The Western Maryland Railway was a small American Class I railroad (1852–1983) that operated in 3 Southern US States, Maryland ( Western Region), West Virginia ( Eastern Region), and Pennsylvania (Southern Region) in the Allegheny Regions of ...

in 1888, and is a one-story frame building in the Eastlake movement /

Stick Style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...

. It is a simple rectangle measuring 70 feet long and 24 feet wide, with a 12 foot wide, three-sided bay. It features German siding and a

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seam gable roof. It was listed on the

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in 1996 as the Western Maryland Depot.

References

Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888 Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Buildings and structures in Tucker County, West Virginia Parsons Stick-Eastlake architecture in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Tucker County, West Virginia Former railway stations in West Virginia {{WestVirginia-railstation-stub