Graver's Lane Station
Furness, Frank

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Alternative Title
Gravers Lane Station R7
Date
1872-1879Description
Side view of the station from the track side; During his career, Furness designed over four hundred buildings including banks, churches, synagogues, railway stations for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads, and numerous stone mansions in Philadelphia and along Philadelphia's Main Line, as well as a handful of commissioned houses at the New Jersey seashore, Washington, D.C., New York state, and Chicago, Illinois. The station building is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and the National Register. It was built in 1872 or 1879 with Furness & Evans as the architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 11/11/2007)
Type of Work
railroad stationSubject
architectural exteriors, Victorian
Rights
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