This freight house was built in 1906 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2002, for its significance in transportation.

[3] It was built by the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway and is the only freight house on the line still extant.

[4] President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Allamuchy in 1944 via his private railway car, the Ferdinand Magellan.

[5] The Lehigh & Hudson River Railway was merged into Conrail in 1976, and the freight house was abandoned.

The freight house was in severe disrepair when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and a project to restore the building was begun in 2004 by the New Jersey Midland Railroad Historical Society and the Allamuchy Township Environmental Committee.