New London Union Station

New London's Union Station, opened in eighteen eighty-seven, is one of the surviving works of Henry Hobson Richardson, the architect whose Romanesque Revival style shaped American public buildings in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Richardson died in eighteen eighty-six, the year before the station opened, so it was completed by his successors. The building is built of rough-cut brownstone with a distinctive round-arched arcade along the track side, characteristic of Richardson's heavy, earthy style.

It served as the main gateway for passengers heading to the submarine base at Groton during both World Wars, handling enormous volumes of sailors and war workers. Restored in the nineteen seventies and again in the early two thousands, it remains an active Amtrak stop on the Northeast Corridor and one of the most handsome small-city stations on the entire line.