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Notes:
Hugging the side of a cliff overlooking the Hudson River near the Tappan Zee Bridge sits this former railroad station. Used as a home for many years, it is now slated for restoration.
Matthew Watson and Henry DeBaun were Nyack contractors who built a large number of houses in Nyack. They also had an office in Suffern and designed a number of the Tuxedo Park estates in the late 1890s.
I thank Grace Mitchell, Piermont Municipal Historian, for providing the documentation on this station and its architect.

Bibliography:
The Next Station Will Be:- An Album of photographs of Railroad Depots in 1910. Livingston, NJ: Railroadians of America, 1973-1994.
This brief book contains a valuable collection of old photographs. Many of the depots reproduced are in the Stick Style.

"Landmark Nomination Helps Piermont Station." Our Town July 12, 2006: 7. "Our Town" is a weekly newspaper published in Orangetown, NY.

"The Piermont Station." Rockland County Journal October 20, 1883.

"The new station at Piermont-on-the-hill is nearly completed, and we do not hesitate to say that it is one of the handsomest little buildings we have ever seen. Its architecture is of Swiss design, the architect being Mr. M.W. DeBaun, of the firm of M.W. and H. Debaun who erected it".

Temsky, Leontine Zimiles. "The End of the Line." Connection February 1978: 22-24.

This article includes interesting detail on this building as well as reminiscences by its last occupant. "Connection" was a magazine published for only a couple of years in the late 1970s.

Wallace, William Howard. Genealogy of the De Baun Family: Eleven Generations of Descendants of Joost De Baun, Who Settled in New Utrecht, N.Y., 1683. 11th ed. Oceanside, NY: W.E. Wallace, 1979.

Photo Source:
Bruce Barnes, March 2004
Vintage photographs courtesy of the New Jersey Midland Railroad Historical Society Collection.