Mount Airy (SEPTA station)
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Mount Airy Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail
station at 119 East Gowen Avenue between Devon and Sprague Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. The station building is in the National Register of Historic Places
and was built in 1875 with Frank Furness
as the architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project.
The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line
, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 9.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2004, this station saw 231 boardings on an average weekday.
SEPTA Regional Rail
The SEPTA Regional Rail system consists of commuter rail service on thirteen branches to over 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and its suburbs. Service on most lines runs from 5:30 AM to midnight...
station at 119 East Gowen Avenue between Devon and Sprague Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
. The station building is in the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
and was built in 1875 with Frank Furness
Frank Furness
Frank Heyling Furness was an acclaimed American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his eclectic, muscular, often idiosyncratically scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan...
as the architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project.
The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line
Chestnut Hill East Line
The Chestnut Hill East Line , is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail system. The route serves the northwestern section of Philadelphia with service to Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill...
, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 9.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2004, this station saw 231 boardings on an average weekday.
