Mt. Airy Station - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Train Stations/Depots on Waymarking.com

The station currently serves SEPTA commuter trains running on an electric railway. It also serves as a used book store - Walk a Crooked Mile Books. Additional information about the station is available here.

Frank Furness, America's first celebrity architect, designed many railroad stations, but is best known for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania Library. For more on Frank, see the book "Frank Furness - Architecture and the Violent Mind" by Michael J. Lewis. In this book, Mr. Lewis describes the Mount Airy Station as being "even more frenetic than Graver's Lane...". This is also the station that was used by the President of the Reading Railroad, Frank Gowen, who lived in the area. Fortunately, Frank Gowen liked Frank Furness, and "...patronized Furness regularly, commissioning a series of speculative houses around his estate in Mt. Airy...".

Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: Yes Is the station/depot open to the public?: Yes What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad; Reading Railroad; Conrail; SEPTA Station/Depot Web Site: [Web Link] If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?: Not listed

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