# St. John's Terminal

New York City, NY · other · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-ee3396256b` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/new-york-city-st-john-s-terminal/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-ee3396256b.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-ee3396256b.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-ee3396256b

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | built | none |
| Strategy | redevelop | none |
| New use | office | none |
| Original developer | New York Central Railroad | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Redeveloper | Oxford Properties and Canada Pension Plan | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **architect_original**: “Designed by Edward A. Doughtery” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

## Parties

- Oxford Properties and Canada Pension Plan — developer

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

St. John's Terminal, also known as 550 Washington Street, is a building  on Washington Street in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Edward A. Doughtery, it was built in 1934 by the New York Central Railroad as a terminus of the High Line, an elevated freight line along Manhattan's West Side used for transporting manufacturing-related goods. The terminal could accommodate 227 train cars. The three floors, measuring 205,000 square feet (19,000 m2) each, were the largest in New York City at the time of their construction.
The building was used as a freight terminal until 1960, when the freight line was decommissioned.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Terminal

## Sources

- St. John's Terminal — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Terminal

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "St. John's Terminal, New York City, NY." Record n-ee3396256b, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/new-york-city-st-john-s-terminal/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_newyorkcitystjohnsterminal,
  title = {St. John's Terminal, New York City, NY},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/new-york-city-st-john-s-terminal/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-ee3396256b, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.