Built in 1907, this Beaux-Arts style train station is a real beauty. Its four story façade is covered with copper that oxidized in a beautiful dark green. The stained glass representing floral and Greek revival motifs were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The original 225 foot clock tower had to be dismantled at the beginning of the 1950s. Fortunately, a new one has been erected in 2007 replicating the original.
The Erie-Lackawanna Terminal has witnessed a few “firsts”. It’s here that Thomas Edison, in 1930, was at the controls of a regular service electrified train departing for the first time from Hoboken to Montclair NJ. It is also said that the Terminal was the first to install a central air-conditioning device in a public space.
The Terminal has also been used for a few movies: Funny Girl, Three Days of the Condor, Once Upon a Time in America, The Station Agent, Julie and Julia and a few others.
