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Lebanon station (Reading Railroad)

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Tracks
  
2

Electrified
  
No

NRHP Reference #
  
75001647

Area
  
4,000 m²

Added to NRHP
  
17 July 1975

Disabled access
  
No

Built
  
1900

Opened
  
1900

Architecture firm
  
Wilson Brothers & Company

Lebanon station (Reading Railroad)

Location
  
N. 8th St., Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Shingle style architecture

Similar
  
Outer Station, Pennsylvania Railroad - Connecti, Schuylkill River, 30th Street Station

Lebanon station, also known as Reading Railroad Station, is a historic train station in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Wilson Brothers & Company in the Shingle Style and built by the Reading Company in 1900, it consists of two sections connected by a large overhanging roof.

The smaller section is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular structure that contained a baggage room, telegraph office, and yardmasters' office. It measures 55 ft 6 in by 32 ft 6 in. It has a hipped gable roof with bellcast hiIerpped gable dormers and a two-story octagonal tower.

The larger section is a two-story structure measuring approximately 80 ft 6 in by 32 ft 6 in and contained men's and women's waiting areas and restrooms. It features a large octagonal tower rising 70 80 ft above the station and has a hipped gable roof with hipped gable dormers and a semicircular bay.

The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Lebanon station (Reading Railroad) Wikipedia


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