Building Description Scarsdale Railroad Station, Scarsdale New York
The Scarsdale Station is a stucco and half-timbered neo-Tudor style building with steep roof slopes clad with Spanish tile. The dog-leg-shaped building can be divided into two sections. The south wing contains a handsome waiting room with white enameled bricks and half Umbering. The north wing originally contained a ticket office, men's and women's toilets, a baggage room, and an American Express room. The building has undergone relatively minor alterations and retains its integrity to a high degree. No original plan has been located and it is possible that some of the spaces to the rear of the building have been altered (possibly in 1917). The former baggage and American Express rooms at the north end of the building have been converted into a small bank.
The south wing measures 23'5" long on its east elevation, 14'1" long on its west elevation, and 21'4" wide; the carriage porch adds an additional 12'6" to the length of this wing. The north wing measures 52'5" long on its east elevation, 43'9" long on its west elevation, and 21'9" wide.
The main entrance to the station is located on the south elevation beneath the carriage porch. This entry has a wooden enframement and original fourteen-light sidelights, but has modern doors. A second door, connecting the waiting room and platform area, is located on the south side of the east elevation. This door has also been altered. On the north side of the east elevation is the entrance to the former American Express Room. Now a bank. this entrance also has a modern door. To the south of this entrance is the former entrance to the baggage room. The doorway to this room has been closed up, but the entrance retains twenty-one light sidelights and a quadripartite transom with six lights per section.
The cellar, located below the former baggage room in the center of the building, is reached via a trap door in a closet located off of the passageway that leads northward from the waiting room past the toilets and ticket office. A flight of wooden stairs descends to the cellar which is divided into two small rooms.
The entire south wing of the station is taken up with the waiting room. To the north of the waiting room, along the eastern side of the building, is the ticket office. The ticket office is divided into two sections by a step. To the west of the ticket office is a passageway off of which are the men's and women's toilets and a closet containing a floor hatch leading to the boiler room. At the north end of the building is a bank that incorporates the former American Express room.
The waiting room contains two L-shaped benches--a long bench on the west wall and a short bench on the east wall to the south of the fireplace; each of these has an extension on the south wall. These benches have bentwood veneer and cast-iron armrests. Most of the original furnishings in the ticket office have been removed. There is a cash shelf inside of the ticket office in front of the eastern ticket window.
