Mount Airy station
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 119 East Gowen Avenue between Devon and Sprague Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19119 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1875 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | February 5, 1933[1] | ||||||||||
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Mt. Airy Station | |||||||||||
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| Location | East Gowen Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°3′53.71″N 75°11′29.77″W / 40.0649194°N 75.1916028°W | ||||||||||
| Built | 1875 | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Stick/eastlake | ||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 77001186 | ||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | September 22, 1977[2] | ||||||||||
Mount Airy station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 119 East Gowen Avenue between Devon and Sprague Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was built in 1875 with Frank Furness as the likely architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project. The National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form lists the architect as unknown, but notes the similarities to the nearby Gravers station which was designed by Furness. Both stations display an aggressively styled roofline in the Queen Anne Stick Style. The Mount Airy station's roof is described as "combining hipped, gabled, jerkinhead designs with a double splayed profile" and the Graver's Lane Station might be considered even more aggressive.[3]
The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 9.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 193 boardings and 159 alightings on an average weekday.[4]
A used book store formerly occupied much of the station building.[5]
Station layout
| G | Street level | Exit/entrance |
| P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Inbound | ← Chestnut Hill East Line toward 30th Street (Sedgwick) | |
| Outbound | Chestnut Hill East Line toward Chestnut Hill East (Wyndmoor) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
References
- ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Cohen, Madeline L. "Mt. Airy Station, Reading Railroad" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
- ^ Ubinas, Helen (August 16, 2014). "A beloved bookstore lives on". www.philly.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
External links
- SEPTA – Mt. Airy Station
- Older and 2005 Mount Airy RDG Station images
- Gowen Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Station House from Google Maps Street View
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