{{Short description|Intercity rail station in New York, US}} {{Use American English|date = February 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date = February 2020}} {{Infobox station | name = Rouses Point, NY | style = Amtrak | image = Rouses Point station, July 2017.jpg | caption = Rouses Point station in July 2017 | address = 68 Pratt Street | borough = Rouses Point, New York | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|44.9948|-73.3712|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | owned = Canadian Pacific Railway | line = Canadian Subdivision | platform = 1 side platform | tracks = 1 | connections = | parking = Yes | bicycle = | accessible = Yes | code = {{Amtrak code|RSP}} | opened = 1889 | rebuilt = 2014 (renovated) | mpassengers = | services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Adirondack|left=Saint-Lambert|right=Plattsburgh}} | other_services_header=Former services | other_services_collapsible=yes | other_services={{Adjacent stations |system1=Delaware and Hudson Railway|line1=Main|right1=Chazy |system2=Napierville Junction Railway|line2=Main Line|left2=Lacolle |system3=Amtrak|line3=Adirondack|left3=Montreal West|right3=Plattsburgh|note-mid3=rerouted 1986|to-left3=Montreal old }} | other_services2_header=Former services at Rutland Railroad station | other_services2_collapsible=yes | other_services2={{Adjacent stations |system1=Rutland Railroad |line1=Main|right1=Alburgh |line2=Green Mountain Flyer|through-left2=Montreal via Canadian National|right2=Alburgh |line3=Ogdensburg-Alburgh|left3=Champlain|right3=Alburgh |system4=Canadian National Railway|line4=St. Johns|left4=Cantic |line5=Green Mountain Flyer|left5=St. Johns|through-right5=New York or Boston via Rutland RR }} | nrhp={{Infobox NRHP | name = Rouses Point Railroad Station | architect = Delaware and Hudson Railroad | architecture = Romanesque | added = January 5, 2005 | embed = yes | refnum = 04001454<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|Amtrak}} }}
'''Rouses Point station''' is an Amtrak intercity train station in Rouses Point, New York, served by the single daily round trip of the ''Adirondack''. The station building is a former Delaware and Hudson Railway constructed in 1889, with a one low-level side platform on the east side of the track. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 as '''Rouses Point Railroad Station'''.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316944 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Rouses Point Railroad Station|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= Mary Racicot and Eleanor Martinsen |date= August 2003| access-date=October 26, 2025 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>
== History == The Northern Railroad (later the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad) opened between Ogdensburg and Rouses Point in 1850, with a wharf on Lake Champlain at Rouses Point. In 1851, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad was extended south from Canada to a wharf just to the north of the Northern's wharf.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/1606358/Rouses+Point++Chazy+Landing++Coopersville++Perrys+Mills/Clinton+County+1869/New+York/ |title=Atlas of Clinton County, New York |year=1869 |publisher=F. W. Beers, A. D. Ellis & G. G. Soule |pages=15–16}}</ref> That year, the Vermont and Canada Railroad (V&C) began operating a railcar barge from the Northern wharf to Alburgh, Vermont, where its line continued to Burlington. It soon gained control of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain. Not until 1868 did the line complete its bridge across the lake to Rouses Point.<ref name=nne>{{cite book |title=The Rail Lines of Northern New England |last=Lindsell |first=Robert M. |publisher=Branch Line Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-942147-06-5 |pages=}}</ref>{{rp|172}}
After several reorganizations, the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain and the V&C became part of the Central Vermont Railway (CV) in 1873.<ref name="gateway" /> In 1876, the Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H) extended its mainline north to Rouses Point, where it connected with the Champlain and St. Lawrence for access to Montreal.<ref name="gateway">{{Cite magazine |last=Worthen |first=S. S. |date=May 1968 |title=The Rouses Point Gateway |url=https://archives.exporail.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/canadian-rail-199-1968.pdf |magazine=Canadian Rail |issue=199 |pages=115–120 |issn=0008-4875}}</ref> The D&H station was located at Pratt Street, just south of the diamond crossing of the CV, which had a separate station at the junction.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804rm.g3804rm_g062271884 |title=Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rouses Point, Clinton County, New York |date=October 1884 |publisher=Sanborn Map Company |page=1}}</ref> thumb|left|Early 20th century postcard of the station The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain became independent again in 1877.<ref name="gateway" /> In 1883, it constructed the Lamoille Valley Extension eastwards from Rouses Point, with a new drawbridge parallel to the CV bridge. The line connected with the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad at Maquam, Vermont. The CV immediately moved to regain control of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain, which occurred in June 1884. Service on the extension ended that July, and it was abandoned in 1888.<ref name=nne />{{rp|352}}
In 1889, the D&H built a new station in the then-popular Romanesque style. It is a one-story red brick structure with a hipped slate roof and dark stone trim. A round tower with a steep conical roof is at the southern end. The east façade has a Syrian arch door and two similar windows.<ref name="nrhp">{{cite web |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316944 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Rouses Point Railroad Station |date=August 2003 |author1=Mary Racicot |author2=Eleanor Martinsen |author3=Linda M. Garofalini}}</ref><ref name=great>{{cite web |url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/rouses-point-ny-rsp/ |title=Rouses Point, NY (RSP) |website=Great American Stations |publisher=Amtrak}}</ref> Around that time, the CV built a new station slightly further east near Pratt Street, which allowed trains to turn north on the line to Montreal.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804rm.g3804rm_g062271891 |title=Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rouses Point, Clinton County, New York |date=January 1891 |publisher=Sanborn Map Company |page=2}}</ref> thumb|left|The ''Adirondack'' at Rouses Point in 1989 The CV lost control of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain during bankruptcy in 1896.<ref name="gateway" /> In 1901, the Rutland opened its Island Line from Burlington to Rouses Point, using gauntlet tracks to share the CV bridge. That year, the Rutland acquired the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain.<ref name=nne />{{rp|43}} The Napierville Junction Railway opened north from Rouses Point in 1907, giving the D&H a faster route to Montreal. CV passenger service to Rouses Point ended in 1929.<ref name=nne />{{rp|170}}
Rutland passenger service to Rouses Point lasted until 1953.<ref name=nne />{{rp|44}} The final service was the ''Mount Royal'' and an Ogdensburgh–Alburgh mixed train; the ''Green Mountain Flyer'' had been cut back to Burlington in 1951.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105312938/the-barre-daily-times/ |title=Curtailment of R.R. Passenger Service Approved |newspaper=The Barre Daily Times |date=September 19, 1951 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Green Mountain Lake Champlain Route |title-link=:commons:File:Rutland Railway 1953 timetable.pdf |date=April 26, 1953 |publisher=Rutland Railway |via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref> D&H passenger service continued until April 30, 1971. Amtrak, which took over intercity passenger service in May 1971, resumed service on the D&H with the ''Adirondack'' in 1974. Amtrak initially used the D&H station, but later switched to a former express office just to the north.<ref name=nrhp />
In 2002, the D&H sold the station to the Village of Rouses Point for $5,000.<ref name=great /> It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 2005.<ref name="nris" /> An accessible platform was built in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/work-planned-at-area-train-stations/article_a4d5859b-98af-58a2-b21e-06276156b05d.html |title=Work planned at area train stations |newspaper=Press-Republican |date=April 30, 2010}}</ref> A rehabilitation project was completed in 2014, allowing the station building to serve as Rouses Point History and Welcome Center.<ref name=great /> {{clear left}}
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== External links == {{commons category inline}} {{Amtrak web|RSP|Rouses Point, NY}}
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