Radburn Station

Radburn Station in the Borough of Fair Lawn was built in 1930 and designed by architect Clarence S. Stein. The station is significant as a fine example of the Dutch Colonial Revival trend in architecture, with its prominent side gambrel roof reflecting the local Dutch Colonial tradition. It is also important as part of the planned community of Radburn, New Jersey, the first American realization of the utopian Garden City concept, which Stein designed with Henry Wright. The station stands on the former Bergen County Branch, part of the New York Division of the Erie Railroad, built to bypass congestion on the Main Line in heavily trafficked Paterson and Passaic. That Main Line began as the Paterson & Hudson River Railroad, chartered in 1831 by Paterson businessmen and ending in Passaic, then extended through Bergen Hill to Jersey City in 1838. The Paterson & Ramapo Railroad Company, chartered in 1841, ran from Paterson to connect with the Erie Railroad's Piermont branch into New York State. Around 1850, the Erie Railroad acquired both Paterson-based railroads and incorporated them into the New York Division. Radburn Station was listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 1984.

Fair Lawn, New Jersey · United States