It was four stories tall, and It took months to find something acceptable, he said. Broad Street has gone through various changes since its beginnings in Colonial America. He can be reached at jon.caroulis@gmail.com. Download the SEPTA App from the Apple Store, Download the Transit Watch App from the Apple Store. Serving South Philadelphia and Grays Ferry. This was dedicated to the late. The model is generally viewed from several feet away and I like to think this approach worked. said Denlinger. North Broad Street Station at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue. Sun shines on Broad Street for a record-breaking 2022 Blue Cross Broad Street Run. [9], Broad Street is home to several Philadelphia cultural landmarks. The stub-ended design of Broad Street required arriving locomotives to back up and be turned on a turntable before they could depart, creating additional congestion. It was designed by Horace Trumbauer and his chief designer Julian Abele. Edward W. Duffy is the author of "Philadelphia: A Railroad History" (Camino Books, 2013) and "Philadelphia Celebrates: Three Great Anniversaries - 1876-1926-1976" (Camino Books, 2017). MLS# PAPH2193148. Four Points by Sheraton Philadelphia City Center. That lesson would be learned and applied by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. p. 3. Holy cow. 4.51 miles. Broad Street has gone through various changes since its beginnings in Colonial America. Route ID: 30. Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains, Anne Cooper Funderburg wrote, At the turn of the century, virtually all soda fountains were wall models that is, the back of the apparatus sat flush against a wall. As the model was built based on images I found or was offered, it is a blend of different eras from 1881-1923, he said. Date of photo unknown. Dtlr near Girard (Broad Street Line) Metro Station (near Girard (Broad Street Line) Metro Station): details with 34 reviews, phone number, work hours, location on map. Ambassador to Ireland) was paid $157,500 to demolish the station; included in the contract was a provision the company could sell off what it could salvage. TDD/TTY: (215) 580-7853. At certain points, the scale is so small that instead of duplication of a specific detail, I often chose a material that I hoped would capture the look or feel of an area. This original concept design facilitated surrounding development in the next 100 years of a thriving urban residential community, countryside recreation and the focal location point for regional metropolitan spectator sporting events. [Railroad], Philadelphia, Pa. Photo, Print, Drawing [Philadelphia, Pa., Chestnut St., west from 12th] Photo, Print, Drawing Broad St., Philadelphia You might also like Book/Printed Material The official street directory for the city of Philadelphia Book/Printed Material This hotel features free WiFi in public areas, wedding services, and self parking. The PRRs initial interest in expanding westward toward the Schuylkill River was blocked by the plans being formulated for East River Drive, and it could not encroach onto the Parkway. There is 1 rack available for 2 bicycles total. The roof was made of wood and glass, and at its highest point stood 100 feet above the ground. It hired the architectural firm Wilson Brothers to design a station with accompanying tracks. Was Readings North Broad Street station built on the same location as the Huntingdon Street Station, or was the latter located elsewhere? Its route is now used for high speed double stack container service. The PRR shed was destroyed in a fire in 1923; it was one of the biggest fires the city had seen, but no lives were lost and service was restored nine days later. The B&O Railroad finally terminated their Royal Blue Line passenger service to Newark on April 27, 1958, leaving the market to its rival PRR. | Image courtesy Print and Picture Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia. Farther north, Broad passes through the campus of Temple University. Broad Street Station was built in 1881 and designed by Frank Furness. No traces of this name exist in this area today and it is merely referred to as part of Broad Street. Sales Office Hours There is no sales office Aside from the magnitude of the station house, train shed, and elevated tracks that extending toward the Schuylkill (forming the Chinese Wall), check out the formal plaza wedge, where the Municipal Services Building stands today. The Parkway, a bold diagonal slicing across the citys street grid from Fairmount Park to City Hall, was placed on the City Plan in 1903. The station continued to function as a railroad stop, accessed by the buildings driveway. It remains Philadelphia's longest straightaway and one of the longest urban boulevards in the United States. The whole atmosphere was exciting, with sounds of pumps, generators, steam, bells, the smell of coal smoke, oil, grease, etc. Route ID: BLVDDIR. Philadelphia, PA 19132-2400. The track layout included four main line trackstwo outbound and two inbound served by two low intermediate platforms long enough for a train of 12 passenger coaches, a rare occurrence on the Reading. Its track along the east side of the Schuylkill River in Center City and Fairmount would have needed to have a northeast-facing tunnel dug to connect it to the Readings Subway or theCity Branch, today the focus of a possible future phase of the Rail Park project, and a trestle to connect it to the Readings 9th Street Viaduct. The ideal location would have been the northeast corner of Broad and Callowhill Streets where the Reading had a railyard for switching freight on the City or Subway Branch west of Broad and traffic east of Broad on the Noble or Willow Street Branch but the Reading had under simultaneous construction there its 13 story Terminal Commerce Building with a railyard and freight station in its basement. The subway starts at the Fern Rock Transportation Center in the Fern Rock neighborhood in North Philadelphia and begins to follow Broad Street at the Olney Transportation Center, extending south through Center City to NRG station at Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia. View more property details, Sales Office Hours There is no sales office open at this location. Today it functions as a halfway house for prisoners nearing the end of their sentences. It was four stories tall, and featured four tracks, each with its own shed to protect travelers. Needless to say, I was impressed. Broad Street runs along a northsouth axis between 13th Street and 15th Street, containing what would otherwise be known as 14th Street in the Philadelphia grid plan. 20th Street at Johnston Street to Pulaski Avenue at Hunting Park Avenue or Wayne Junction. Route ID: 26. Serving Center City. Nearby non-SEPTA parking may be available through other transit services, municipalities, private owners, or streetside. But these connections were never undertaken, and Wayne Junction continued to be the Philadelphia stop on the Reading for their Royal Blue Line service. In 1926 a second Parkway was constructed on Moyanmensing Avenue from Oregon Avenue to the intersection of Packer Avenue, and Packer Avenue was extended from 20th Street to Broad Street (Southern Boulevard) for access to the Sesquicentennial Exposition. Element Philadelphia Downtown, a Marriott Hotel. One of the tunnels continued to the subway station at Lehigh Avenue. Tags:Adaptive Reuse North Philadelphia railroad history. [3] A Masonic Temple, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Adelphi Theater were also built during the same time period. 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19108 - Office Space. Philadelphia sat at the nexus of the railroads two most important routes New York to Washington (todays Amtrak Northeast Corridor) and Philadelphia to the Midwest (Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Detroit). About 20 hours later, ceremonies began to mark the end of the station. For those who wished to make a phone call, Bell Telephone had several operators at a counter. William H. Gray III 30th Street Station to 69th Street Transportation Center. Was the Baldwin Locomotive works still in the way there? Serving Center City and Roxborough. By 1910, when its 18-acre, one block-wide approach corridor,known as the Chinese Wall, was widened for additional tracks, the PRR knew that drastic steps would be necessary. Phone: (215) 580-7800 It was opened in the same year as the Huntington Street Grounds, better known as the Baker Bowl, where the Phillies played across Broad Street from it. See our copyright and trademark notices. When the line reopened in 1993 North Broad became the stops official name. Surprisingly, the station was used for two more decades before finally closing on April 27, 1952. The 1881 building had so much detail that I wanted to represent that as built. The number of tracks was increased to 16. Serving North Philadelphia and Chinatown. Set back 22 feet from the street, the station presented a facade of Indiana limestone set on a Milford pink granite base, with a colonnade of 12 Doric columns 30 feet high holding a narrow portico leading to the main entrance. Philadelphia, PA 19107 One of the busiest streets in the country, Broad Street is shut down for the annual 10-mile (16km) Broad Street Run. The unifying medial green space including the tree lined sidewalks on the east and west connected the two parks developed from river swamp lands that were filled and regraded. 1441 CHESTNUT STREET, Philadelphia, PA, 19102. The intended result was to create a "Suburban Village" by blending the countryside with the urban environments and developing an organization of open space, views and providing the advantages of increased health benefits of "purity of air" and "facilities for quiet out-of-door recreation". (Incidentally, the clock in the sculpture on Broad Street Station was illuminated at night.). Route ID: 32. Please add additional time to the displayed shipping time. CNJ essentially ran shuttle service through Elizabeth to Broad St. in Newark (the viaduct over the PRR [Amtrak NEC] still stands). The Great Depression, and later World War II, delayed the destruction of Broad Street Station, as troops on the way to basic training camps or Europe and the Pacific passed through it. [3] During the American Revolution, the street was often settled by troops moving in and out of the city. See our copyright and trademark notices. The Boulevard was utilized as the main entrance and central roadway in the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, a world's fair hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Route ID: 8. Serving Bridesburg, Port Richmond and Northern Liberties. Denlinger used a wealth of photos of the station's exterior to construct the model, built mostly at 1/160th scale. In Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains, Anne Cooper Funderburg wrote, At the turn of the century, virtually all soda fountains were wall models that is, the back of the apparatus sat flush against a wall. Route ID: 17. It featured a 10-story tower to house the company's main offices on the upper floors, and leased office space for businesses on the lower floors. A Night Owl Service route, continuing to operate after midnight. Penns Landing to 23rd Street at Venango Street. $1,250-$1,695/mo. An estimated 30,000 truckloads of rubble were carted to South Philadelphia and used to lay the foundation for a pier. [6] Lamp post fixtures have been improved as well as sidewalk pavements and subway entrances. Floor plans starting at $1150. One might ask why railroads found this investment so attractive, given that automobiles and trucks were already eating into their revenue business. Route ID: 16. Avenue of the States: from Washington Avenue to Oregon Avenue. It seems right and natural that Furnesss fathers close friends were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman: honesty and passion are the themes of his architecture, as much as space and light.. The City could not cope with the economic burden of the Depression, and civic beautification projects fell to the bottom of its budget. In 1879, the railroad devised a plan to construct a large passenger station at Broad and Market Streets, directly opposite City Hall. It was also aware of the Citys interest in extending East River Drive to South Street, which would necessitate removal of their main Philadelphia passenger station. Construction began in 1907 and was completed as a roadway by 1919, although it would take several decades to finish all the public buildings proposed to line it. Columbus Commons to Frankford Transportation Center. Try our Trip-Planning Tools and Popular Links for more travel resources. When the call was completed, the time was calculated and the customer would pay for the call. WebNorth Broad Station About This Stop Address: 2693 N. Broad Street City: Philadelphia Fare Zone: 1 This is an accessible station. The street runs for approximately 13 miles (21km), beginning at the intersection of Cheltenham Avenue on the border of Cheltenham Township and the West/East Oak Lane neighborhoods of North Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in South Philadelphia. City Hall to Cheltenham Avenue at Ogontz Avenue. We might have actually been embarking on a trip to the shore that day. For comments and suggestions, please contact info@phillyhistory.org. It seems right and natural that Furnesss fathers close friends were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman: honesty and passion are the themes of his architecture, as much as space and light., In the 1920s, the railroad made plans for a larger, more modern station, and by 1933, 30. Decades later, the model, lets us see in three dimensions what the station looked like when it existed. An interesting decoration included the addition of large bronze medallions atop the side walls depicting various forms of transportation from the covered wagon to the zeppelin, an idea that the Reading borrowed from the PRRs Spirit of Transportation bas relief plaque originally designed by Karl Bitter for Broad Street Station and later relocated to 30th Street Station. This listing is for one single vintage standard sized postcard, [2] Albrecht, Harry P. [1972] (1976). Itwas built next to the new City Hall on Centre Square at the epicenter of Philadelphias fast growing down town. About 160 trains passed through the station, and by 1886 a million passengers a month were using it (in addition to national routes, the PRR offered regional rail lines from Philadelphia's suburbs to the station). A Broad Street Line branch connecting Eighth Street and Chinatown stations with select stations north of Market Street. Bike Racks In 1910, there were 578 arrivals and departures daily, more than one-tenth of all the PRR's trains. Because tunnels were not ideal for steam-powered trains, and street-level tracks were potentially dangerous, the railroad built a two-story, 2,000-foot long, 55-foot wide viaduct that led to the station. Route ID: 28. It hosts concerts and other Route ID: 9. The northwest corner was already taken by the Inquirers Elverson Building. Five years later, the station was gone, and only a Pennsylvania Historical Marker at 15th and Market Streets and a few surviving artifacts prove it existed. Aboard the last train from the station rode the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Eugene Ormandy conducting a rendition of Auld Lange Syne12. Broad Street Station as a symbol of power. It is interrupted by Philadelphia City Hall, which stands where Broad and Market Street would intersect in the center of the city. Route ID: 7. WebBroad St. station of Pennsylvania R.R. 4th Street at Walnut Street to Andorra. The Reading hired Horace Trumbauer, Philadelphias go-to Gilded Age architect, to design the station in the Neoclassical style like its competitor. [3] Composing of a center square, Holme designed the street to be roughly 100 feet (30m) across and 13 miles (21km) long. [11], Broad Street often serves as the main parade route for Philadelphia sports championship parades, most recently for the Eagles Super Bowl LII victory. I believe that the Royal Blue and the other B&O passenger trains to New York terminated in Jersey City at Communipaw Terminal. The train rode to 30th Street Station, then on to the PRR's North Broad Street Station, the last stop of the last train to mark the end of the station's service. Columbus Boulevard at Dock Street to 50th Street at Woodland Avenue. We might have actually been embarking on a trip to the shore that day. Chelten Avenue Station to Frankford Transportation Center. 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