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PennStationNYC

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Image ID :	LC-B2- 2280-16
View/Description :	View from Gimbells in c1910-15
Image Creator :	Bain, George Grantham
Image Date :	c1910-15
Image Source :	Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@field(NUMBER+@1(ggbain+09670))
Notes :	5 x 7 inch glass negative
Rights Owner :	Public Domain
URL to larger image :	http://wikicatalog.pbwiki.com/f/2163715340_6f5b6e9317_o.jpg

Work ID :	PennStationNYC
Title :	Penn Station Pennsylvania Station Pennsylvania Railroad Station Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) [LCSH]
Creator/Agent :	McKim, Mead & White McKim, Mead, and White [ULAN]
Date (of work) :	1902-11
Location/Site :	United States, New York, New York [TGN] New York, NY New York City
GIS Coordinates :	+40.75098-73.9943/
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Description :	Occupying two complete city blocks from Seventh Avenue to Eighth Avenue and from 31st to 33rd Streets, Pennsylvania Station covered an area of 8 acres. The McKim Mead & White building was made of pink granite, the train sheds of glass and steel. The enormous main waiting room, a steel framework clad in travertine, was inspired by the Roman Baths of Caracalla. The building was sold in 1962 and demolished. A transit station remains on the site in New York, but is underground, below Madison Square Garden Complex.
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Work Type :	Architecture Railroad station [AAT]
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Material :	pink granite [AAT] glass and steel [TRAINSHEDS]
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Nineteenth Century Ecole des Beaux-Arts Beaux-Arts [AAT] American [AAT]
Cultural Context :	American East Coast
Subject :	Transportation [LCSH] Transportation buildings [AAT] Railroad stations [AAT] Long Island Railroad Company [LCSH]
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Text Reference :	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON004.htm
Keywords :	transit, public, column, arcade, trolley, pedestrian, automobile, urban, corinthian, doric, controversy, preservation
Notes :	Pennsylvania Station opened September 8, 1910 for Long Island Rail Road trains via the new tunnel under the East River; Pennsylvania Railroad trains began using the station in November 1910

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I added the LCSH heading "Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)" as a title, but I wonder if should be used as a subject instead because it contains the geographic location.

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