Ampere station

LocationAmpere Plaza and Whitney Place, East Orange, New JerseyCoordinates40°45′55″N74°11′40″W / 40.76528°N 74.19444°W / 40.76528; -74.19444Area1.6 acres (0.65 ha)Built1908ArchitectFrank J. NiesArchitectural styleRenaissanceMPSOperating Passenger Railroad Stations TRNRHP reference No.84002628NJRHP No.1073Significant datesAdded to NRHPJune 22, 1984Designated NJRHPMarch 17, 1984Removed from NRHPOctober 30, 1990

Ampere, formerly known as The Crescent, is a defunct stop on New Jersey Transit's Montclair Branch (current-day Montclair–Boonton Line) in the city of East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. A station was first built there in 1890 to service to new Crocker Wheeler plant in the district. The stop was named in honor of André-Marie Ampère, a pioneer in electrodynamics and reconstructed as a new Renaissance Revival station in 1908. Ampere was the second stop on the branch west of Newark Broad Street Station until 1984, when the Roseville Avenue station was closed. In June of that year, the station, along with 42 others, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places. In 1986, after continuous deterioration, New Jersey Transit demolished the westbound shelter built in 1921. The agency discontinued rail service to Ampere on April 7, 1991. The entire station was demolished in 1995.