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Union Station

ca. 1910-1915

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Union Station
  • Title
  • Union Station
  • Date
  • ca. 1910-1915
  • Identifier
  • 201401.001.KB
  • Description
  • People walk near the Pennsylvania Railroad's Union Station. The station, also referred to as Pennsylvania Station and Penn Station was designed by Daniel Burnham and built between 1898 and 1903 with renovations completed in 1954 and 1988. The station is the third building to sit at this location. The first depot was built around 1865 and was burned in the 1877 Pittsburgh railroad riots. A second depot was hastily constructed, lasting until the 1890s when Burnham was hired to design the neo-baroque terracotta and stone building we see today. The station was converted to apartments above, but still serves as the base of operations for Amtrak routes departing from Pittsburgh.
  • Extent
  • 4 x 5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Railroad stations
    Union Station (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Central Business District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Steel Process Lantern Slide Collection, ca. 1907-1927
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Steel Process Lantern Slide Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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