Pennsylvania Railroad Office Building
- Architect
- Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1927, this fourteen-story office building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White in the Classical Revival style, combining a four-story limestone and terra cotta base with a ten-story, E-shaped tower of buff-colored brick above. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
the building
Base and tower. The building steps from a limestone-and-terra-cotta base up to an E-shaped brick tower, a massing that let the railroad fit a fourteen-story office block onto its site while still reading as a classical composition from the street.
the style
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White applied a restrained Classical Revival vocabulary suited to a corporate railroad office building.
More on Neoclassicalsignificance
Currently known as University Crossings, the building today provides student housing along with classroom, laboratory, and office space for Drexel University.
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