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Reading Company Grain Elevator

Coordinates: 39°57′40″N 75°10′18″W / 39.96111°N 75.17167°W / 39.96111; -75.17167
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Reading Company Grain Elevator
The Reading Company Grain Elevator
Reading Company Grain Elevator is located in Philadelphia
Reading Company Grain Elevator
Reading Company Grain Elevator is located in Pennsylvania
Reading Company Grain Elevator
Reading Company Grain Elevator is located in the United States
Reading Company Grain Elevator
Location411 N. 20th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°57′40″N 75°10′18″W / 39.96111°N 75.17167°W / 39.96111; -75.17167
Arealess than one acre
Built1925
ArchitectReading Co.
NRHP reference No.82003813[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 10, 1982

The Reading Company Grain Elevator was built as a grain elevator in 1925 by the Reading Railroad in Center City Philadelphia to replace an elevator that had operated on the same spot since the Civil War. The building was abandoned in the 1950s and refitted in the 1970, with the lower floor made into offices, the grain storage areas essentially untouched, and the upper levels made into penthouses.[2][3]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Workshop of the World - Philadelphia
  3. ^ The Granary at Baldwin Park