The Wanamaker Building - built 1876Submitted by Trev_Takes_Photos t3_ztj3og in philadelphia
cheviot t1_j1gqurw wrote
This building used to have a beautiful entrance from the Market-Frankfort line, but all that was destroyed when the lower level was removed in the 1990s and replaced with a parking garage.
explorewithdora t1_j1h04v3 wrote
Yo yo, former worker at the cafe in the lobby. Not sure if it's still open since this was 2019, but there is a connection between the BSL concourse into the building. It's not exactly nice down there, but the stairs up into the lobby are quite grand.
Trev_Takes_Photos OP t1_j1gqxtv wrote
Are there any photos of that!?
cheviot t1_j1grtbm wrote
Sure.
From a book published on the Market Street Subway's construction, printed in 1908.
The-Sand-King t1_j1ioe7o wrote
Was that stairwell that leads to the parking garage part of that entrance?
cheviot t1_j1ip7ko wrote
When you exit 13th street station on the south side of the EL you come to a set of locked glass doors. Inside are two stairways leading up and a locked door in the middle of a large sealed up opening straight ahead. Straight ahead used to lead directly into The Wanamaker Building. That doorway straight ahead now leads to parking level 2.
The stairways leading up go to one of the north entrances of the Wanamaker building (and possibly to the long closed 13th St Station mezzanine)
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