The depot was purchased by ING Direct in 1999, and the bank performed a complete rehabilitation of the building in 2000. There have been talks of using the station as an Underground Railroad museum.
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| Pennsylvania Station | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known more commonly as simply "the train station," Pennsylvania Station has served the city of Wilmington for nearly 100 years. The second station to be built on this site, Pennsylvania station was erected in 1908 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and was designed by the renowned Philadelphia architect Frank Furness. Furness also designed the adjecent Pennsylvania Building, and the nearby Baltimore & Ohio freight depot. Amtrak is the current owner of the station, and has scheduled an extensive renovation in 2005. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pennsylvania Station in February 2003 at the corner of French and Front Streets. The station has changed very little from when it was built in 1908. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A side profile of the station in the middle of Water Street (since realigned) ca. 1970's. The footbridge to the Pennsylvania Building has been removed, and the renovation to start in 2005 will link the two buildings with a glass atrium. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Pennsylvania Building housed the offices for the Delmarva Subdivision of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The subdivision included the surrounding Wilmington area, and the entire branch line running down to Delmar at the Maryland line. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Pennsylvania Building as it looked on July 27th 2004. ING Direct bought the building in 1999, and has done extensive work on the building. Harriet Tubbman Park (a portion in the foreground) sits between the building and the Christina River. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baltimore & Ohio Frieght Depot | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Baltimore & Ohio freight depot, also designed by Frank Furness, was built to handle the freight arriving or departing on the waterfront. The B&O has a separate passenger depot some twenty blocks north in the Trolley Square / Forty Acres section of the city on their mainline to Philadelphia. This passenger station, at Delaware Avenue and DuPont Street, was torn down many years ago and is now the site of an Acme grocery store. The depot was purchased by ING Direct in 1999, and the bank performed a complete rehabilitation of the building in 2000. There have been talks of using the station as an Underground Railroad museum. |
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| The Baltimore & Ohio freight depot as it looked sometime around the 1996-97. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The B & O freight depot in September 2004. ING is currently using the building for office space (The colors are much brighter in the actual photo, I'm not sure why this is washed out). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Night photo by Rick Clark (Copyright) 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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