Richmond Railroad Station Historic District

The Richmond Railroad Station Historic District is a group of historic commercial buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana.

Historic District
The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings the icon of which is the Daniel Burnham-designed Pennsylvania Railroad Station, completed in 1902. It developed between about 1853 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Chicago School style architecture. In addition to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, other notable buildings include the Miller Brothers Block (1890), Jacob H. Lichtenfels Building (1890), Charles Sudhoff Building (1893), Benjamin Starr Building (1896), William H. Alford Building (1905), John Roberts Building (1877), R.F.D. Hose House No. 1 (1890), James Shaw Building (1875), and Richmond / Atlas Underwear Building (1910).

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and is also a local conservation district designated by the City of Richmond's Historic Preservation Commission.

Railroad station
It hosted trains on north–south and east–west trajectories through eastern Indiana:
 * Amtrak:
 * National Limited - Kansas City–New York, New York
 * Pennsylvania Railroad:
 * American - St. Louis–New York, New York
 * Buckeye - Chicago–Cincinnati, Ohio
 * Indianapolis Limited - Indianapolis–New York, New York
 * Northern Arrow - Mackinaw City–Cincinnati, Ohio, with sleeping car sections moved onto connecting trains to St. Louis
 * Penn Texas - St. Louis–New York, New York
 * Southland - Chicago–St. Petersburg, Florida/Sarasota, Florida/Miami, Florida
 * Spirit of St. Louis - St. Louis–New York, New York
 * St. Louisan - St. Louis–New York, New York
 * Union - Chicago–Cincinnati, Ohio, and a section to Columbus via Dayton

A previous station at this same location was also a stop on the procession of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Indiana Governor, Oliver P. Morton, boarded the train at this stop, and rode it to Indianapolis, where a procession and showing were held.