{{Short description|South Shore Line station in Indiana}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | style = NICTD | name = Beverly Shores | type = | image = Beverly Shores South Shore Railroad Station P4080033.JPG | image_upright = 1.3 | image_caption = | address = Broadway Avenue and US 12, Beverly Shores, Indiana | other = Calumet Trail | platform = 2 side platforms | tracks = 2 | parking = Yes | bicycle = Yes | closed = | rebuilt = | electrified = | accessible = Yes | code = | owned = NICTD | zone = 7 | passengers = 47 (average weekday)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://metra.com/sites/default/files/2021-02/2020_State_of_the_System_Report.pdf|page=SSL-4|title=2020 State of the System Report|date=November 2020|publisher=Metra}}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> | pass_year = 2019 | pass_percent = | pass_system = | services = {{Adjacent stations|system=NICTD|line=South Shore|left=Dune Park|right=11th Street}} | other_services_header = Former services | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=NICTD|line=Former|left=Kemil Road|note-left=Closed 1994|right=Willard Avenue|note-right=Closed 1994|to-right1=South Bend Airport}} | map_state = collapsed | route_map = {{Routemap|legend=track|inline=y|map= vSTR!~MFADEg ~~ ~~ ~~ {{rint|NICTD|SSL}} west to {{stl|NICTD|Millennium}} RP2q!~MFADEgq\vSKRZ-G2BUE\RP2q!~MFADEfq ~~ ~~ Broadway PLTl\vSTR\PLTr PLTl\vSTR\PLTr vSTR!~MFADEf ~~ ~~ ~~ {{rint|NICTD|SSL}} east to {{stl|NICTD|South Bend Airport}} }} | nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = Beverly Shores South<br />Shore Railroad Station | image = | caption = | coordinates = {{coord|41|40|24|N|86|59|9|W|region:US-IN_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}} | district_map = {{infobox mapframe|frame-width=300|stroke-width=3|type=point|zoom=14|marker=rail|marker-color=#891b0f|shape=none}} | map_caption = Interactive map highlighting the station | built = {{start date|1929}} | architect = Arthur U. Gerber<br />Leo W. Post | architecture = Mediterranean Revival | added = July 19, 1989 | refnum = 89000411<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }} }} '''Beverly Shores''' is a train station in Beverly Shores, Indiana, served by the South Shore Line interurban commuter railroad. The station serves the town of Beverly Shores as well as the nearby Town of Pines. It is a flag stop.

==Architecture== [[File:20050708 02 Beverly Shores, IN (11552522744).jpg|thumb|left|Station neon signage at night.]] This is one of eleven such stations built along Insull lines, which included the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee line.<ref>{{cite report |title=Porter County Interim Report, Indiana Historic Sites, and Structures Inventory |publisher=Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana |date=July 1991 |page=9}}</ref> Of the eleven, only this station and the North Shore Line's Briergate station still exist. The Mediterranean Revival style was used for a series of buildings adjacent to the station, including the Bartlett Real Estate Office.<ref>Historic Marker on site</ref>

Beverly Shores station is one of the last two examples of the "Insull Spanish" architecture style used for station houses along the electric railroad lines acquired by Samuel Insull in the first part of the twentieth century. The other is in Highland Park, IL, with the Briergate station but it is threatened with demolition.<ref>{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Berkowitz |title=Railroad buffs hope to save Briergate station built in 1926 |date=July 11, 2017 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/news/ct-hpn-train-station-preservation-tl-0713-20170711-story.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711223041/http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/news/ct-hpn-train-station-preservation-tl-0713-20170711-story.html |archive-date=July 11, 2017}}</ref> It was a Mediterranean Revival style designed by Insull's staff-architect, Arthur U. Gerber.<ref name=HABS>Beverly Shores South Shore Railroad Station; Hisortic American Buildings Survey; Rpt IN-262, National Park Service, Washington D.C.</ref> The station is served by daily passenger trains of the South Shore Line. Although freight trains pass daily in either direction, no freight service is offered from this location. The station housed an agent, Nellie Warren, and her husband at one time.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.monon.monon.org/rr/southshore.html|title=The Little Railroad That Could, The South Shore|website=www.monon.monon.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034643/http://www.monon.monon.org/rr/southshore.html|archive-date=2017-12-01|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-11-25}}</ref> This section is now an art gallery.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} The most notable characteristic of the station, aside from the Spanish style, is the large neon sign reading "Beverly Shores".

The station house is located north of the track. There is a rudimentary paved platform structure directly in front of it. A small parking lot is located right behind the depot.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

==History== thumb|left|Side view with sign for art museum, and NRHP plaque. The South Shore Line began in 1901 as the Chicago and Indiana Air Line Railway. It was incorporated in 1925, when several stations were added, including the Beverly Shores Station at Broadway and another at Central Avenue.<ref name=HABS/> The station was designed by architect Arthur Gerber and built by Leo W. Post in 1929 as a mirror image of the Lake Shore station built two years earlier and demolished in the 1970s.<ref name=":0" />

The Beverly Shores station replaced an earlier structure serving the developing resort community of Beverly Shores on Lake Michigan. This is the last unaltered Insull Spanish style structure of the nine built on Samuel Insull's South and North Shore Lines. It still serves the 88-mile long South Shore Line, the last of the electric interurban railway systems. This station typifies Insull's interurban routes; it is the best representative of the South Shore Line's history.<ref name="NHRPnomi">{{cite web|url=https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/welcome.html|title=Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)|publisher=Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology|format=Searchable database|accessdate=2016-06-01}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web|url=https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/204d3/N/Beverley_Shores_South_Shore_RR_Station_Porter_CO_Nom.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Beverly Shores South Shore Railroad Station|author=Dorinda Partsch|date=August 1988|format=PDF|accessdate=2016-06-01}} and Accompanying photographs.</ref>

Before 1946, a large neon sign was added to the roof. The sign is owned by the town of Beverly Shores and leased to the railroad until November 2034. The land is owned by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), who leases it to the railroad on a 99-year lease that began in August 1929. The building is owned by the South Shore Railroad.<ref name="HABS" />

On July 19, 1989, the Beverly Shores station was added to the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>

===Improvements in 2021–2023=== thumb|Second track and platform under construction in September 2022 As part of a larger project to double-track the South Shore Line from Gary to Michigan City, Beverly Shores received a second track and a second platform. While some other stations received major renovations as part of the project, Beverly Shores only saw a new low-level platform to accommodate the second track, while the parking and station building remained unchanged.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doubletrack-nwi.com/images/DT_EXH_BeverlyShores-Campus-50scale90_R00_200811.jpg|title=Beverly Shores Campus|publisher=Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District|accessdate=18 October 2020}}</ref> The rebuilt platforms reopened on October 25, 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mysouthshoreline.com/south-shore-line-schedule-revision-service-announcement-oct-25-2023/|publisher=Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District|title=South Shore Schedule Revision/Service Announcement Oct. 25, 2023|accessdate=28 October 2023|date=13 October 2023}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://bsdepot.org/ Beverly Shores Historical Society&nbsp;– Depot Art Gallery & Museum]&nbsp;– official site * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090615211043/http://www.nictd.com/stations.html South Shore Line&nbsp;– Stations]

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