White House station

{{Short description|NJ Transit rail station}}

{{for|stations with similar names|Whitehouse station (disambiguation){{!}}Whitehouse station}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}

{{Infobox station

| name = White House

| style = NJ Transit

| image = Whitehouse station - March 2017.jpg

| image_caption = White House station in March 2017.

| address = 255 Main Street (CR 523), Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

| line = Raritan Valley Line

| distance = {{convert|44.3|mi}} from Jersey City{{cite book | title=NJ Transit Rail Operations: Physical Characteristics | date=2005 | last=NJ Transit | pages=117–119; 142b; 173–182}}

| other =

| platform = 1 side platform

| depth =

| levels = 1

| tracks = 1

| parking = Yes

| bicycle =

| opened = September 25, 1848{{cite news |title=Original Route of New Jersey Central Railroad Followed Old Post Road Between Plainfield and Elizabethport, Historian Says |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18630704/cnj_history_december_31_1938/ |access-date=April 13, 2019 |work=The Plainfield Courier-News |date=December 31, 1938 |page=7|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| closed =

| years1 = December 9, 1891

| events1 = Station depot burned{{cite news |title=A Railroad Station Burned Down |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19494257/whitehouse_cnj_fire_december_10_1891/ |access-date=March 17, 2019 |work=The Daily Times |date=December 10, 1891 |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| rebuilt = 1892{{sfn|Bernhart|2004|p=69}}

| accessible = No

| code =

| owned = New Jersey Transit

| zone = 19{{cite web|url=http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0060.pdf|title=Raritan Valley Line Timetables|publisher=New Jersey Transit Rail Operations|access-date=November 27, 2010|date=November 7, 2010|location=Newark, New Jersey|archive-date=November 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107152229/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0060.pdf|url-status=dead}}

| passengers = 110 (average weekday){{cite web | url=http://media.nj.com/bergen_impact/other/1Q2013.pdf | title=QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS | publisher=New Jersey Transit | access-date=December 31, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419042253/http://media.nj.com/bergen_impact/other/1Q2013.pdf | archive-date=April 19, 2013 | url-status=live }}

| pass_year = 2012

| pass_percent =

| pass_system =

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=NJ Transit|line=Raritan Valley|note-mid=weekdays|left=Lebanon|right=North Branch}}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Central Railroad of New Jersey|line=Main Line|left=Lebanon|right=North Branch}}

| nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP

| embed = yes

| name = White House Station

| nrhp_type =

| image = Whitehouse Station.JPG

| image_size = 300px

| caption =

| location = Main Street, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#{{rcr|NJ Transit|Raritan Valley}} |zoom=12 }}

| coordinates = {{coord|40|36|56|N|74|46|15|W|region:US-NJ_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}}

| map_width = 250

| built = 1892

| architect = Bradford Lee Gilbert

| architecture = Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque

| added = June 22, 1984

| area = {{convert|0.3|acre|sigfig=1}}

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000496|title=Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR}}

| refnum = 84002726{{NRISref|2009a|refnum=84002726}}

| designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP

| designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_date = March 17, 1984

| designated_other1_number = 1628{{cite web |title=New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Hunterdon County |url=https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/Hunterdon.pdf#page=15 |publisher=New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office |page=15 |date=December 28, 2020 }}

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| designated_other1_color = #ffc94b

}}

}}

White House is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in the Whitehouse Station section of Readington in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The station is on the west side of Main Street in the center and the station building has subsequently been turned into a branch library for the Hunterdon County Library system. This station has no weekend service.

The building was designed for the Central Railroad of New Jersey in the Richardson Romanesque style by Bradford Gilbert who is best known for having designed the first steel-framed curtain wall building, but who also designed at least six railroad stations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its significance in architecture and part in the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.