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Cambria Freight Station | |
Cambria Freight Station, September 2013 | |
| Location | 630 Depot St., Christiansburg, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°8′28″N 80°24′15″W / 37.14111°N 80.40417°W |
| Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
| Built | c. 1868-1869 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 85003351[1] |
| VLR No. | 154-0048-0001 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 12, 1985 |
| Designated VLR | April 16, 1985[2] |
Cambria Freight Station, also known as Christiansburg Depot, is a historic freight station located at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, US. It was built in 1868–1869, and is a wood-framed, one-story, U-shaped structure with a shallow hipped roof and deeply overhanging eaves in the Italianate style. A portion of the center section rises to form a tower-like second-story room, covered with an even shallower hipped roof. A long, one-story freight section extending eastward from the rear. The building also served as a passenger station, until Christiansburg station was built nearby in 1906.[3] The building houses a local history museum known as the Cambria Depot Museum.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] It is located in the Cambria Historic District.