Mount Airy station

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, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project. 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.[3]

Mount Airy
Location119 East Gowen Avenue between Devon and Sprague Streets,
Philadelphia, PA 19119
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone2
History
Opened1875
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[1]
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Sedgwick
toward 30th Street Station
 Chestnut Hill East Line Wyndmoor
toward Chestnut Hill East
Mt. Airy Station
LocationEast Gowen Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°3′53.71″N 75°11′29.77″W
Built1875
Architectural styleStick/eastlake
NRHP reference No.77001186
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1977[2]

The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 9.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 193 boardings and 159 alightings on an average weekday.[4]

A used book store formerly occupied much of the station building.[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 (Sedgwick)
Outbound ←      Chestnut Hill East Line toward Chestnut Hill East (Wyndmoor) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

References
  1. "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. Cohen, Madeline L. "Mt. Airy Station, Reading Railroad" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  4. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
  5. Ubinas, Helen (August 16, 2014). "A beloved bookstore lives on". www.philly.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved January 21, 2019.


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