Boonton station
railway station in Boonton, the United States of America
Boonton is a NJ Transit station in Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey, United States along the Montclair–Boonton Line. It is located on Main Street (County Route 511), near Myrtle Avenue (U.S. Route 202) and I-287. The original 1905 station was built by architect Frank J. Nies who built other stations for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Unlike most of his stations which tended to be massive Renaissance structures, Boonton station was built as a simple Prairie House design. The station house is now a bar, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1977, two years before the establishment of New Jersey Transit and six years before becoming part of their railroad division.
History
The construction of the Boonton Branch began on February 22, 1866 at a groundbreaking on the Denville section of Rockaway Township. This would be a new branch of tracks between Ketchams Switch and Boonton. The very first passenger train to Boonton came on September 5, 1867, going to New York City at 6:45 a.m. The first freight train was two weeks later, a coal train to a local mill. Boonton was the location of several iron mills and freight trains often brought supplies to the mills.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Boonton station” as railway station in Boonton, the United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Boonton, the United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4943710. Authority coordinates are 40.904, -74.406. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1905, 1977, 1866 and 1867.
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