Far Hills Station was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1914 and was designed by staff architect L.R. Simpson, an assistant to Frank J. Nies, who designed most of the stations in the D. L. and W. system. The station is an example of the Renaissance Revival style, with round-arch window frames and surrounds, a central eyebrow dormer, a Spanish tile roof, and glazed green tiles set in a geometric pattern in its poured concrete walls. It is nearly identical to the earlier Morris Plains Station, but was built of reinforced concrete rather than brick because that durable and versatile material was being used extensively on grade crossing elimination projects on the D. L. and W. at the time. Far Hills Station stands on NJ Transit's Gladstone Branch, originally chartered in 1865 as the Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad, renamed the New Jersey West Line in 1870, acquired by the D. L. and W. on October 19, 1878, and renamed the Passaic and Delaware Railroad. The line was extended from Bernardsville to Gladstone on April 17, 1890, after which most of the station buildings along it were built. Electrified train service reached Somerset County in 1931, and Far Hills Station was listed on both the State and national Register of Historic Places in 1984.