The Italianate facade of Utica's Boehlert Transportation Center

Welcome to the Union Station of Utica, New York, a testament to Italianate style, designed by New York architects Stem and Fellheimer. Built between 1912 and May 1914, the station features thirteen bays across the façade and fifteen on the side elevations. A brick parapet crowns the building, featuring a large clock flanked by eagle sculptures over the main entrance.

Inside the 15,000-square-foot waiting room, a 47-foot-high vaulted ceiling is supported by 34 marble columns. The station's blueprints called for importing columns that originally adorned Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Today, the interior features a restaurant, a barbershop, and twelve large benches heated by steam pipes and vents incorporated into the benches themselves.

Utica's Union Station has a storied history, housing the New York Central Railroad and becoming tenanted by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and the New York, Ontario and Western Railway in 1915. Named for retired U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, the station is now known as the Boehlert Transportation Center. It serves Amtrak trains and the Adirondack Railroad, with an island platform slightly widened from its original dimensions serving westbound trains.

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