Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station
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Line(s) | Pittsburgh Subdivision | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Smithfield St. at Carson St., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°26′1″N 80°0′14″W / 40.43361°N 80.00389°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area | less than one acre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Built | 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | Burns, William George | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Edwardian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 74001743[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Added to NRHP | January 11, 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designated CPHS | March 15, 1974[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designated PHLF | 1970[3] |
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, now Landry's, Inc.'s the Grand Concourse restaurant in Station Square Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building from 1898. Into the 1960s the station was a hub station for the passenger rail operations of New York Central's Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and a minor hub for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (which had its own station in Pittsburgh). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1][4]
Gallery
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The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, c.1905
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B&O's Diplomat at the P&LE Station c. 1970
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The station in 2007
See also
- Grant Street Station
- Union Station (Pittsburgh)
- Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
- Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Local Historic Designations". Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
- ^ Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009 (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. 1971. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
External links
Media related to Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Station at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1231, "Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, Smithfield & Carson Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 2 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Categories:
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad stations
- Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania
- Railway stations opened in 1898
- Railway stations in Pittsburgh
- Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations
- City of Pittsburgh historic designations
- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh
- Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pennsylvania railway station stubs
- Pittsburgh building and structure stubs