[4] The station house is an at-grade single story wooden structure featuring a Dutch gable roof, shiplap siding, and gingerbread trim.

The NJW built west to Bloomingdale, and east to Paterson beginning in 1869 with DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn envisioning the New Jersey railroad as the final eastern link to New York City in his New York and Oswego Midland Railroad.

As early as 2005[18] the VRA began planning a move of the station to alleviate the nearly monthly truck strikes to the southeast roof corner.

The group fundraised and by July of 2010 was constructing a new concrete brick and poured floor foundation 75 feet west of the building's then-current location.

[21] The neighborhood of the original Erie mainline station would benefit from state funding to improve signage, lighting and parking.