Parking:

There are roughly 15 parking spaces in front of Stelle Rose but please leave these open for our elderly or mobility impaired guests. If you park in a designated Stelle Rose parking spot your car must be gone by the end of the night or it will be towed at our expense by the venue. There is also street parking along South Augusta St. and Middlebrook Ave. but if you plan on partaking in alcohol we urge you to take an Uber or Lyft to and from your hotel as we want everyone to get home safely!

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HISTORY:

Stelle Rose at Staunton Station is located in the downtown Wharf Area Historic District of Staunton, VA. The site of Staunton Station has been a railroad depot since 1854 but the current station is the third on this site. The first station was destroyed when Union General Hunter's troops set it on fire in June 1864. After it was rebuilt, a runaway train in 1890 destroyed the second station. The current station was designed by Staunton architect Thomas Jasper Collins and built by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1902. The passenger depot was used into the 1960's and then sat empty, falling into disrepair along with the rest of the station complex. A 1987 fire in the freight house almost led to demolition of all the rail structures until Vic and Linda Meinert of Atlanta bought the complex and decided to renovate if for commercial purposes. Their work was in part funded through federal historic preservation tax credits and was supported by the city of Staunton. The passenger depot subsequently served as a restaurant for many years, and in 2019, following interior renovations, it reopened as Stelle Rose. The platform still operates as an Amtrak station.