Gravers station
Gravers ![]() | |||||||||||||
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Location | 300 East Gravers Lane at Anderson Street Philadelphia, PA | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 17 | ||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |||||||||||||
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Location | Gravers Lane and Reading Railroad Line Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°4′37.75″N 75°12′8.73″W / 40.0771528°N 75.2024250°WCoordinates: 40°4′37.75″N 75°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 at 300 East Gravers Lane at Anderson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station building is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places[3] 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. On November 7, 1977, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1983 it was acquired by SEPTA's regional rail division.
The building combines a commuter railroad station with a residence on the second floor. It combines many materials and stylistic features, leading one architectural historian to call the style "histrionic".[4]
The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 10.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 124 boardings and 125 alightings on an average weekday.[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 (Wyndmoor) | |
Outbound | Chestnut Hill East Line toward Chestnut Hill East (Terminus) → | |
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.
- ^ "PRHP: List of properties with OPA-compliant addresses" (PDF). Philadelphia Historical Commission. Retrieved 03-07-2013.
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(help) - ^ Cohen, Madeline L. (1977). "Graver's Lane Station, Reading Railroad" (PDF). National Register of Historic Place 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)
External links[]
- SEPTA – Gravers Station
- 2000 Kevin Leary photo
- Gravers Lane entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Station House from Google Maps Street View
- Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
- SEPTA Regional Rail stations
- Former Reading Company stations
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Frank Furness buildings
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1879
- Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania railway station stubs
- SEPTA stubs