Train Depot Renovations

Train Depot Renovations

After several years of extensive design, renovations and restoration, this historic pagoda-style train depot located in Bernardsville, NJ, will serve as Windigo’s new home complete with a new design studio, model shop and office spaces.

The original Bernardsville, NJ structure was constructed in approximately 1872 to serve as a terminal for the Passaic & Delaware Extension Railroad, a segment of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad. In 1900 the pagoda style building along with its canopy extensions, were relocated about a quarter mile to the east to its current location to make way for construction of a new larger railroad station.

For a short term, the former train depot served as a school house. Then in 1905 it was purchased by Bernardsville Newspaper and had served as its editorial headquarters up until 2017. By 1930 a concrete block addition had been constructed towards the rear of the building and then again in the mid 1950’s to serve the newspaper’s expanding operations.