Built 1876 Opened 1876 Added to NRHP 8 September 2011 | NRHP Reference # 11000649 Area 4,000 m² | |
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Location 1001 South 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built by Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture | ||
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Freight Shed is a historic freight station located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along Broad Street. It was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in 1878, and is a large 1 1/2-story brick and stone building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It measures 99 feet, 5 inches, wide and 235 feet long. It has a long, sloping roof supported by a Fink truss system, with glazed monitors.
Following President Abraham Lincoln's 1865 assassination, his body was brought to the shed for a public viewing. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
In 2016, developer Bart Blatstein proposed a $100 million mixed-use development that would restore and make use of the train site in what would be called Lincoln Square.