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Hopewell
Hopewell station in 2013.
History
Opened	April 27, 1876 (ceremonial service) May 1, 1876 (regular service)
Closed	December 3, 1982
Key dates
October 1976	Station agent eliminated
Former services
Preceding station Conrail Following station West Trentontoward Reading Terminal Crusader and Wall Street1976–1981 Belle Meadtoward Newark West TrentonTerminus West Trenton Line1981–1982 (NJ Transit) Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Glen Mooretoward Philadelphia New York Branch Stoutsburgtoward Bound Brook
Hopewell Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Hopewell station in 2019
Location	Railroad Place, Hopewell, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°23′29″N 74°45′48″W / 40.39139°N 74.76333°W / 40.39139; -74.76333
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1876
Architectural style	Second Empire
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002728
NJRHP No.	1673
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP	March 17, 1984

Hopewell station is located in Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The station was built in 1876. The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and was originally listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. New Jersey Transit has proposed reopening the station to railroad service as part of the West Trenton Line.

History

The Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad built the station in 1876 as part of the planned National Railway route between New York City and Washington, D.C. The station was leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway in 1879. Train service to the station was terminated in 1982.

Gallery

• The main room of the Hopewell passenger station, at least part of which may have been the railroad office at one time.
• The waiting room of the Hopewell passenger station, complete with vintage stove.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
• List of New Jersey Transit stations

Bibliography

• Poor, Henry Varnum (1865). Manual of the Railroads of the United States: Volume 27. H.V. & H.W. Poor.

References

1. "Opening a New Rail Route". The Lancaster Intelligencer. May 3, 1876. p. 2. Retrieved September 6, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Poor 1865, p. 711.
3. "Agency Cuts 200 Jobs, Rail Line and Bus Routes". The Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. November 12, 1982. p. 21. Retrieved November 26, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Forrestal, Pat (October 10, 1976). "Ticket Office Remains Open". The Ridgewood News. Ridgewood, New Jersey. p. 16. Retrieved November 26, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
6. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Mercer County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. January 10, 2010. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
7. "New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey: Hopewell". National Park Service. 1984. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
8. "NRHP Nomination Form Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR". National Register of Historic Places. September 29, 1984. Retrieved 22 November 2015.

• Media related to Hopewell (D&BB station) at Wikimedia Commons

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, New Jersey
Landmarks	Abbott Farm Archeological Site Westland Mansion Albert Einstein House Joseph Henry House Lawrenceville School Maybury Hill Morven Nassau Hall Old Barracks Maclean House Princeton Battlefield Prospect House William Trent House Washington Crossing State Park
Districts	Bear Tavern Road--Jacob's Creek Crossing Rural Historic District Berkeley Square Historic District Delaware and Raritan Canal Drake Farmstead/Brookdale Farm Harbourton Historic District Jugtown Historic District King's Highway Historic District Kingston Mill Historic District Lake Carnegie Historic District Lawrence Township Historic District Mill Hill Historic District Mountain Avenue Historic District Old School Baptist Church and Cemetery of Hopewell Pleasant Valley Historic District Princeton Historic District Riverview Cemetery State House Historic District Stockton Street Historic District Titusville Historic District Trenton Ferry Historic District Windsor Historic District
Places of worship	First Presbyterian Church of Trenton First Presbyterian Church of Pennington Penns Neck Baptist Church Sacred Heart Church St. Michael's Church Trenton Friends Meeting House
Houses	John Abbott II House Abbott-Decou House Anderson-Capner House Baker-Brearley House Bow Hill Charles Brearley House Gen. Philemon Dickinson House Douglass House Drumthwacket William Green House Green-Reading House John D. Hart House Hart–Hoch House Donald Grant Herring Estate Highfields House at 379 West State Street Hunt Farmstead Rudolph V. Kuser Estate Ichabod Leigh House Mansion House Mercer Street Friends Center Old Ryan Farm Isaac Pearson House Joseph Phillips Farm John Rogers House Samuel Sloan House Smith-Ribsam House Israel Stevens House Joseph Stout House Tusculum University Cottage Club Colonel John Van Cleve Homestead Jeremiah Vandyke House Isaac Watson House John Welling House John White House Jeremiah Woolsey House
Commercial buildings	Adams and Sickles Building American Cigar Company Broad Street National Bank Henry Clay and Bock & Co. Ltd. Cigar Factory Golden Swan-True American Hopewell Station In and Out Social Club Thomas Maddock's Sons Company New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles Building Old Eagle Tavern Pennington Railroad Station Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Freight Station Princeton Railroad Station Roebling Machine Shop John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Trenton N.J., Block 3 Somerset Roller Mills Stokely-Van Camp Industrial Complex Trenton Bath House West Trenton Station
Public buildings	Bellevue Avenue Colored School Carver Center East Trenton Public Library Higbee Street School Mott School and Second Street School Trenton War Memorial Trenton City Hall U.S. Post Office and Courthouse Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children
Sites	Archeological Site No. 1-18th Century Vessel (28ME196) Crosswicks Creek Site III Mount Rose Distillery Princeton Ice Company Washington Road Elm Allée
Structures	Hog Island Cranes Morrisville–Trenton Railroad Bridge Trenton Battle Monument Trenton City/Calhoun Street Bridge
Former	Princessville Inn
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey

• Second Empire architecture in New Jersey
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1876
• Railway stations in Mercer County, New Jersey
• Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
• Former Reading Company stations
• Former railway stations in New Jersey
• National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, New Jersey
• Hopewell, New Jersey
• New Jersey Register of Historic Places
• Former SEPTA Regional Rail stations
• Railway stations in the United States closed in 1982