The Florida East Coast Railway Station was constructed in 1896 by the Florida East Coast Railway Company as a 100-foot-long Stick style building with ground-level waiting rooms and a raised freight area, originally standing on the east side of the tracks one block south of Atlantic Avenue. It was expanded by 96 feet in the 1920s, and another addition was built in the 1940s. Passenger service ended in the 1960s, and although the passenger area was razed, public outcry prevented the building’s total destruction. In 1968 the remaining freight section was split into two sections and moved. The 1920s portion was destroyed by fire in 1984, but the original 40-foot section of the 1896 station survived and was used for several years as an office and for storage at a nursery west of town. In 1994 the Delray Beach Historical Society purchased this surviving section, moved it to its present location, and rehabilitated it.