That structure remained in use for decades before it began decaying and was replaced in 1911 with a new station on land donated by the widow of Edward Henry Harriman.

The station was maintained as a one-story depot with an adjacent monument dedicated to the work of Charles Minot.

The station itself was a 400 feet (120 m) long brick depot, three stories tall, and topped with a French roof.

[3] During the planning of the Erie, there was some concern to whether or not the railroad would work its way through Harriman at all, instead of bypassing nearby Goshen and Middletown in favor of a terminus at Newburgh, also on the Hudson River.

On May 14, the tour arrived in New York City and began their trip on the first 447 miles (719 km) ride at Piermont at 7:45 that morning.

[11] Around 6:30 pm on the evening of Friday, December 26, 1873, the three-story Orange Hotel station depot caught fire.

Some staff of the re-christened Erie Railroad were examining a room in the roof of the building, and upon looking into it, found it engulfed in smoke.

The flames finally destroyed the entire building, and just two hours after the fire was discovered, the walls began to collapse on the structure.

Train service on the Erie mainline was disrupted for several hours due to the fire and station depot collapse.

However, a local priest at the forefront of the controversy, Father McAran, thought the entire situation regarding the train from New York was a joke.

A self-appointed committee run by the priest proposed a meeting on Saturday, June 4, 1910, at nearby Gillette Hall to protest the name change.

[18] The order from the Erie stated that beginning on July 15, the station name would remain "Harriman" permanently.

To wrap the issue up, a sign in the front of the local church proclaiming "LONG LIVE TURNER" was destroyed.

[3] That year a new station, built with the $6,000 from Edward Henry Harriman's widow, was constructed of brick with a stucco outlier.

The roof of the one-story depot was built with shingles, which helped it match the Tudor-style used at the Tuxedo station eleven miles eastbound.

At the ceremony, Minot's assistance to the railroad community was honored and a bronze tablet on a stone backing was unveiled as a monument to him.

The station featured both the main depot as well as a small shelter on the opposite side of the double-tracked line.

His lawyer, who got him off third-degree burglary charges and several acquittals, also negotiated a payment of $20,000 to Gorney from Harriman for the pain and suffering of the amputated leg, despite the attempted crime he was shot for.

[21] By the 1930s, long-distance passenger trains to Chicago, such as the Erie Limited and the Lake Cities, ran through Harriman but made no stops.

In 1976, the Erie Lackawanna and several other large railroad companies were merged into the newly formed federal Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail).

[26] In 1983, the station was finally closed when Conrail and the newly formed Metro-North Railroad announced that all service, both passenger and freight, would be transferred to the Graham Line (built by the Erie for high-speed freight) with new passenger stations with parking lots being constructed.