Westerly Railroad Station

Westerly Railroad Station (1912)

This elegant, Spanish Colonial Revival structure, with its stucco walls and hipped, terra-cotta tile roof, was built to replace a frame depot which had been built about the time the railway first came through Westerly in 1837.

It is composed of a central block housing the main waiting room, and two lower side wings housing baggage and service spaces.

A central front entrance is protected by an open arcade surmounted by an ornamental terra-cotta dormer, designed to contain a clock, which breaks up through the overhanging eaves of the main roof.

An open, hipped roof structure on the platform just west of the station serves as a waiting shelter, and a similar but enclosed structure just to the east provides access to a pedestrian subway below the tracks.

At the time the station was built the tracks were moved north of their original location in order to build an automobile underpass at Canal Street.