{"id":22106,"date":"2017-04-11T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22106"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:24:34","slug":"looking-south-train-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/looking-south-train-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking South – Train Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This area\u00a0of Broad and Washington is in the throes of being developed into apartments\u00a0and retail space. Fortunately, this\u00a0train shed which served as a stop for President\u00a0Lincoln’s funeral train en route\u00a0to Illinois, is on the National Register of Historic Places and will be saved. The location had train service since 1836, and the structure was built\u00a0by the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad in 1878. Additional photos behind the cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This area\u00a0of Broad and Washington is in the throes of being developed into apartments\u00a0and retail space. Fortunately, this\u00a0train shed which served as a stop for President\u00a0Lincoln’s funeral train en route\u00a0to Illinois, is on the National Register of Historic Places and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4079,4,104,2093],"tags":[4128,4129,105,4127],"class_list":["post-22106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-south","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-broad-washington","tag-lincoln-funeral-train","tag-south-philly","tag-train-shed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5Ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22297,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/24\/up-on-the-roof-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":22106,"position":0},"title":"UP on the Roof","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We have recently told you of the work on the Civil War-era train shed at Broad and Carpenter Streets in South Philadelphia. 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