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The Reading Terminal (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing) is a complex of buildings that includes the former Reading Company main station located in the Market East section of Center City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It comprises the Reading Terminal Headhouse, Trainshed, and Market.
Reading Terminal Market in March 2024 Center Court Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market located at 12th and Arch Streets in Center City Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . It opened originally in 1893 under the elevated train shed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Philadelphia advocated to move public markets from the ...
The trainshed was incorporated into the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The viaduct was built by the Reading Company as an approach to the new Reading Terminal. [8] The viaduct heads north from Reading Terminal and at Callowhill Junction, forks, with Ninth Street Branch formally merging with the current SEPTA main line.
The Pennsylvania Convention Center comprises four main halls or rooms, smaller meeting rooms and auditoriums, and the Grand Hall, which occupies much of the trainshed of the former Reading Railroad terminal. The rest of the train shed is occupied by meeting rooms and a hallway on the main floor, and the Grand Ballroom on the upper floor.
The station sat empty until the mid-1980s, when a group of investors renovated it as a luxury hotel, leaving the massive, 200-foot-long train shed behind the building untouched. A fire damaged the ...
Reading Terminal and Trainshed: Reading Terminal and Trainshed. December 8, 1976 : Center City 1115–1141 Market St. Philadelphia: Historic train depot, passenger ...
Among their surviving major works are the Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge over the Schuylkill River (1866–67), the main building of Drexel University (1888–91), and the train shed of Reading Terminal (1891–93), all located in Philadelphia.
The Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, showing a nine-story brick head house to the right and arched train shed (with market below) to the left.. A head house or headhouse may be an enclosed building attached to an open-sided shed, or the aboveground part of a subway station.