# Section house

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{{Short description|Building near railroad for railroad workers}}
A '''section house''' is a building or house-like structure located near or next to a section of [railroad](/source/railroad) used for housing railroad workers, or for the storing and maintenance of equipment for a section of railroad. Section houses were used mainly from the 1890s to the 1960s. By the 1970s, section houses were being slowly phased out. In [Canada](/source/Canada) section houses were usually located right across from the [railway station](/source/railway_station). In the UK, a section house may be a building near a police station, providing collective accommodation for officers.

==Examples==

===United States===
;Alaska
* [Potter Section House](/source/Potter_Section_House), [Potter](/source/Alaska_Railroad), Alaska, now housing a small museum with a [rotary snow plow](/source/rotary_snow_plow) and [crew car](/source/crew_car)s, located south of [Anchorage, Alaska](/source/Anchorage%2C_Alaska).
* [Whitney Section House](/source/Whitney_Section_House), built in 1917 in [Wasilla, Alaska](/source/Wasilla%2C_Alaska).

;Arizona
* Benson Section House, built by [Southern Pacific Railroad](/source/Southern_Pacific_Railroad) in 1880s–'90s in [Benson, Arizona](/source/Benson%2C_Arizona).
* Elgin Section House, [Elgin, Arizona](/source/Elgin%2C_Arizona), built for the now-abandoned Benson-to-Nogales mainline of the New Mexico & Arizona Railroad (later Southern Pacific).
* Patagonia Railroad Section Foreman Residence, built next to the Patagonia Depot in 1904 by New Mexico & Arizona Railroad and moved to its present location in [Patagonia, Arizona](/source/Patagonia%2C_Arizona) in 1964.
* Skull Valley Section House, built in the 1920s in [Skull Valley, Arizona](/source/Skull_Valley%2C_Arizona).
* Wickenburg Section House, built by [Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway](/source/Atchison%2C_Topeka_and_Santa_Fe_Railway) in 1925 in [Wickenburg, Arizona](/source/Wickenburg%2C_Arizona).

;Kansas
* Kansas Pacific Railway Section House, an 1879 stone railroad superintendent's residence, one of only two remaining [Kansas Pacific Railroad](/source/Kansas_Pacific_Railroad) structures. [Wallace, Kansas](/source/Wallace%2C_Kansas).

;Oregon
* [Maupin Section Foreman's House](/source/Maupin_Section_Foreman's_House), built in 1910 in [Maupin, Oregon](/source/Maupin%2C_Oregon). Now used as museum commemorating the [Deschutes Railroad War](/source/Railroad_Wars)

;South Carolina
* Little Mountain Section House in [Little Mountain](/source/Little_Mountain%2C_South_Carolina), built in 1890 by the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad

===United Kingdom===
A section house is a house near a police station, providing collective accommodation for officers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kentish Town Section House |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/kentish-town-section-house |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=www.london.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-19 |title=Stoke Newington Section House |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/mayors-office-policing-and-crime/governance-and-decision-making/mopac-decisions-0/stoke-newington-section-house-refurbishment |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=www.london.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:POTTER SECTION HOUSE.jpg|Potter Section House in Alaska.
Image:Railroad section house, Elgin, Arizona.jpg|Section house for the New Mexico & Arizona Railroad, Elgin, Arizona. The railroad line ran just to the right of the large porch, approximately where the large cottonwood tree now stands.
File:Wickenberg -Santa Fe Section House-1925.jpg|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway section house in Wickenburg, Arizona.
File:Railroad_Section_Foreman_Residence_In_Benson_Arizona_2015.jpeg|Southern Pacific section foreman's house in Benson, Arizona.
File:Maupin Section Foremans House - Maupin Oregon.jpg|Maupin Section Foreman's House in Maupin, Oregon.
</gallery>

==See also==
* [Train station](/source/Train_station)
* [Section (rail transport)](/source/Section_(rail_transport))

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://thepowmill.blogspot.com/ True Tales from a CPR Section House]

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Category:Railway buildings and structures
Category:Canadian architectural styles
Category:American architectural styles

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