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New Terminal Depot at Philadelphia, Reading Railroad System lithograph, circa 1891. The headhouse was designed in 1891 by Francis H. Kimball, and the train shed by Wilson Brothers & Company.
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, including the piers extending into a waterway, or the aboveground part of a subway station.
Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal Market Harry Ochs Original Harry Ochs meat stand. Open-air markets have flourished in Philadelphia since its founding. Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street (then called 'High Street') to be renamed 'Market Street' in ...
A developer purchased the facility in 1986, converting the massive train shed into a hotel and shopping mall and turning the Grand Hall — with its 60-foot barrel-vaulted ceiling, 3,200 square ...
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 Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad was incorporated on April 13, 1888, leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway on May 1, 1891, and soon began construction. [1] The viaduct was built by the Reading Company as an approach to the then-new Reading Terminal. [2] The viaduct and terminal opened on January 29, 1893. [1]
The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, also known as Communipaw Terminal and Jersey City Terminal, was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's waterfront passenger terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal was built in 1889, replacing an earlier one that had been in use since 1864. It operated until April 30, 1967. [3]
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