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Pennsylvania Railroad Office Building
Pennsylvania Railroad Office Building is a historic office building located in the University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1927, and is a 14-story, brick and limestone building in the Neoclassical architecture, Classical Revival style. It consists of a four-story limestone and terra cotta base, topped by a 10-story E-shaped tower of buff-colored brick. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The building is currently known as University Crossings and provides student housing and office space for Drexel University. Gallery File:PA Railroad Office Building, Philadelphia 01.JPG, The view from Market St. File:PA Railroad Office Building, Philadelphia 02.JPG, Towers File:PA Railroad Office Building, Philadelphia 03.JPG, Central Tower References Pennsylvania Railroad Commercial buildings on the National Register of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
