24th Street Station (Philadelphia)
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...
, designed by architect Frank Furness
Frank Furness
Frank Heyling Furness was an acclaimed American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his eclectic, muscular, often idiosyncratically scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan...
. It stood at 24th and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, and opened in 1888.
The station was essentially built on stilts, with the main entrance from the Chestnut Street Bridge
Chestnut Street Bridge
The Chestnut Street Bridge is a bridge across the Schuylkill River that carries Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The original 1861 bridge was "a bridge whose scale and use of cast iron made it singular in the United States and throughout the world"...
, 30 feet above ground level. The B&O trains ran under the bridge along the east bank of the Schuylkill River
Schuylkill River
The Schuylkill River is a river in Pennsylvania. It is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River.The river is about long. Its watershed of about lies entirely within the state of Pennsylvania. The source of its eastern branch is in the Appalachian Mountains at Tuscarora Springs, near Tamaqua in...
. Furness mixed Flemish Revival detailing with an industrial aesthetic of brick, iron and glass. Through the station's plan, he separated the flow of passengers waiting to board the trains from those arriving. It also had a connection to the 24th Street trolley stop
24th Street (PTC station)
The 24th Street Subway–Surface Trolley Lines Station was a station on the Philadelphia Transit Company's Subway-Surface Trolley System. It was Location at 24th and Markets , the station was build by the City of Philadelphia for its trolley lines and for the then Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Line that...
until it was closed in 1956. The station saw its last regularly scheduled passenger train on April 28, 1958, when the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ended all passenger services north of Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
. The station was demolished in 1963.
