Then and Now: East bank of Schuylkill River at Market Street, Philadelphia. 1915 & 2010. The building on Market Street by the Schuylkill banks that today houses the Marketplace Design Center was initially built as an automobile factory, circa 1920. Like many industrial buildings of its age, it had a loading dock on the ground level connected to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks by a short rail siding. Also visible in the top right of the original photograph is the B&Os passenger terminal at Chestnut Street. Before the auto factory, this site was occupied a portion of the citys oldest municipal gas works complex, which straddled both sides of Market Street on the Schuylkill Rivers east bank for most of the 19th century. The facilities between Market and Chestnut Street were demolished around the turn of the century, at which point something very different may have taken its place.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:40:08 +0000
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