{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | name=Mason | style=New York Central Railroad | logo= | logo_size= | image = Mason Depot.jpg | address=111 North Mason Street, Mason, Ingham County, Michigan 48854 | line= | other= | parking= | bicycle= | passengers= | pass_year= | pass_percent= | rebuilt= | accessible= | code= | owned= | zone= | services={{Adjacent stations|system=New York Central Railroad|line=Bay City Branch|left=Wickes|right=Holt}} |nrhp= {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot | nrhp_type = | caption = | location= 111 N. Mason St., Mason, Michigan | coordinates = {{coord|42|34|58|N|84|26|55|W|region:US_type:landmark|name=Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = | built = {{Start date|1902}} | architecture = Bungalow/craftsman | added = June 6, 1985 | area = less than one acre | mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000329.pdf Mason Michigan Historic MRA] | refnum = 85001239<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> }} }}
The '''Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot''' is a former railroad depot located at 111 North Mason Street in Mason, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.<ref name="nris"/> It was remodeled into a restaurant, and is now the home of the Mason Depot Diner.
==History== In 1865, the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad laid tracks through Mason, allowing access to the Michigan Central Railroad in Jackson. The line was finished into Lansing in 1866. Michigan Central began leasing the line in 1873,<ref name = "det">{{cite web | title = Mason Depot, Michigan Central Railroad | author = Ren Farley | publisher = Detroit1701 | date = 2012 | url = http://detroit1701.org/Mason%20Depot,%20MCR.html | accessdate = July 23, 2018}}</ref> and provided both freight and passenger service to Mason.<ref name = "nom">{{citation | title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot | url = https://catalog.archives.gov/id/25337985}}</ref>
In 1902, Michigan Central constructed this railroad depot on the site of the previous freight depot. It served passengers until the 1930s, and by 1945 passenger service was also terminated. After passenger service was halted, the building remained vacant for 35 years. In 1979, it was remodeled into an ice cream parlor.<ref name = "det"/> It was turned into a pizza restaurant, and in 1992 was turned into the Mason Depot Diner. The Diner was still operating in the building as of 2025.<ref name="mas">{{cite news|title=Mason's historic diner turns 25 |first=Samantha |last=Basirico |date=February 22, 2017 |newspaper=Spartan Newsroom |url=https://news.jrn.msu.edu/2017/02/masons-historic-diner-turns-25/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Vela |first1=Susan |title=National Register of Historic Places includes these Greater Lansing locations |url=https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2025/06/27/greater-lansing-historic-places-national-register/84079105007/ |access-date=18 July 2025 |work=Lansing State Journal |date=27 June 2025}}</ref>
==Description== The Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot is a one-and-one-half-story rectangular building with a hipped roof. The building is constructed of light-colored brick accented by darker brick forming a water table, frieze, corner quoins, and window and door surrounds. The building has wide overhanging eaves and a recessed central entrance flanked with pairs of windows and topped with a hipped dormer with a tripartite window. The windows are of various sizes and grouped in twos and threes, with transoms above. Some have leaded glass.<ref name = "nom"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{National Register of Historic Places listings in Ingham County, Michigan}}
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Ingham County, Michigan Mason Category:Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1902 Category:Bungalow architecture in Michigan Category:Former railway stations in Michigan