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Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Station: Image from page 13 of "Greater Pittsburg" (1910)
Pennsylvania Station: Pennsylvania Station, Pittsburgh, 2001, 01

Photo: Related names: D. H. Burnham and Company Boucher, Jack E, photographer Carnegie Institute of Technology, delineator Buckley, Mary, historian · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Station · Pittsburgh, United States

Pennsylvania Station

On the globe
Dated
Dated 1898–1903
Declared purpose
Railroad station and offices
Today
Survives, apartments and station
Build time
About 5 years
Region
United States
Architect of record
Daniel Burnham, architect: about 52 when credited (1898, born 1846). Build time on record: about 5 years.All architects of record →
On the list as
Documented

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A Beaux-Arts station by Daniel Burnham with a domed rotunda for carriages.

  1. Burnham again

    Burnham after the White City.

  2. A rotunda for carriages

    Its terracotta rotunda sheltered arriving carriages.

Questions worth asking

  • Why a domed rotunda for carriages?

Possible original uses

  • Station

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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