Collection Description

The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Collection consists of 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.

This collection contains no photographs, correspondence or other office files. The largest deposit of Reading Company records is at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington Delaware.

To view a detailed description of this collection, see the Finding Aid.
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