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Location | 300 East Gravers Lane at Anderson Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Chestnut Hill East Branch | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus : L | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 17 | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | 1879 | ||||||||||||
Electrified | February 5, 1933 [1] | ||||||||||||
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Graver's Lane Station | |||||||||||||
Location | Gravers Lane and Reading Railroad Line Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°4′37.75″N75°12′8.73″W / 40.0771528°N 75.2024250°W | ||||||||||||
Built | 1879 | ||||||||||||
Architect | Frank Furness | ||||||||||||
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival | ||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 77001184 | ||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | November 07, 1977 [2] |
Gravers station (formerly Graver's Lane station) is a SEPTA Regional Rail station, which is located at 300 East Gravers Lane at Anderson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station building is listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places [3] and the National Register.
Designed by architect Furness & Evans, Gravers station was built in 1872 or 1879, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1977, and was acquired by SEPTA's regional rail division in 1983.
The building combines a commuter railroad station with a residence on the second floor, and includes a range of materials and stylistic features, leading one architectural historian to call the style "histrionic." [4]
The station is located in zone two on the Chestnut Hill East Line, along former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 10.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 124 boardings and 125 departures on an average weekday. [5]
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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. 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.
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