Philadelphia & Reading Railroad collection, 1859-1889.

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad collection, 1859-1889.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63585971

The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Collection comprises 65 architectural drawings, 1 contract and 1 specification, documenting thirteen stations and the Company headquarters on South 4th Street, Philadelphia. This collection has been formed by the Architectural Archives with the hope of better documenting the architectural heritage of this company as well as the work of a group of significant Philadelphia architects, John M. Gries, William Lorenz (Chief Engineer), the firm of Collins & Autenrieth, Frank Furness, and Theophilus P. Chandler. Much of the material included in this collection had been dispersed at the time of the Company's dissolution in 1976 and has been reassembled through donations from several sources. The collection is open for future additions of drawings or other materials. At time of cataloging (2001) it contains no photographs, correspondence or office files.

Architectural drawings 65 sheets : various media.Additional materials 2 items.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...

Gries, John M., 1827-1862,

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Chandler, Theophilus P. (Theophilus Parsons), 1845-1928

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"Rencourt" was the Wilmington, Del., home of Alexis I. du Pont and his family. It was designed by Pennsylvania architect Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr., built in 1890 and demolished in the 1950s. From the description of Plans of "Rencourt," 1890. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 775014539 Theophilus P. Chandler was born in Boston, Massachussetts and studied one year at Harvard University and later at the Atelier Vaudremer in Paris. He worked in Boston architec...

Collins & Autenrieth

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Despite the prominence of the nineteenth-century Philadelphia architectural firm of Collins & Autenrieth, not much is known about the background of its two founding members. Edward Collins (1821–1902) was born in Köningsberg, Prussia, and studied at universities in Karlsruhe and Berlin, two important architectural centers in Germany. While there, he became friends with Charles M. Autenrieth (1828–1906), who was born in Wurtenburg, and who was also a student of ar...

Furness, Frank, 1839-1912

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Reading Company

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The Reading Company, chartered in 1871 as the Excelsior Enterprise Company, became the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. As a result of anti-trust proceedings, the Reading Company divested itself of its mining subsidiary in 1923 and became an operating company for its rail properties. After bankruptcy in the early 1970s, viable portions of the rail network were conveye...

Lorenz, William, 1826-1884

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