Peekskill Freight Depot
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Peekskill Freight Depot
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west profile during renovation in 2007
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| Location | 41 South Water Street Peekskill, New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°17′14″N 73°55′48″W / 41.28722°N 73.93000°WCoordinates: 41°17′14″N 73°55′48″W / 41.28722°N 73.93000°W |
| Built | c.1890 |
| Architectural style | Stick, Eastlake |
| NRHP Reference # | 04001207 |
| Added to NRHP | October 27, 2004 |
The Peekskill Freight Depot, sometimes called the Lincoln Depot, is located at 41 South Water Street in Peekskill, New York. It is a brick building erected in the late 19th century.
Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at this site during his train ride to Washington after being elected, his only public appearance in Westchester County. No longer in use as a depot, the building is the only intact freight-only station building along the route of the former Hudson River Railroad. In 2004, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and in 2014 it was converted into the Lincoln Depot Museum.
The depot building is closer to the tracks and their chainlink fencing than it is to Water Street. Across the tracks is a park which lies along the Hudson River. The neighborhood is primarily commercial, with other old industrial buildings.
It is a one-story 96-by-30-foot (29.3 by 9.1 m) masonry structure faced in common-bond brick with a shallow-pitched gabled roof. The roof eave extends eight feet (2.2 m) over the elevated platform to shelter handlers while loading and unloading freight. It is supported by brackets and has decorative vergeboards at the north and south gable ends. The brick itself has segmented pilasters between the bays and some corbeling.
Before its conversion into a museum, the interior of the building retained much of its original trim, including the cement floor, wainscoting, exposed trusswork ceiling and reed molding and bullseye corner blocks around the doors.
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