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Centennial Comfort Stations

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The Centennial comfort stations are two one-story brick public restroom buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition to serve the adjacent Horticulture Building, with slate roofs and copper detailing. They are among only four Centennial Exposition buildings that survive on their original sites, and are described as perhaps the only extant restrooms from a nineteenth-century international exposition; after the Horticulture Building was demolished in 1955 the stations were used for storage, and renovation beginning in 2011 has converted the eastern station into exhibition space for the neighboring Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens, with the western station still used for storage. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Comfort station 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
United States 3
Completed Year
1876 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Fort / Fortress 2
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Fortification, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Uses Element

Brick, Architectural Materials
Source Centennial Comfort Stations (Wikipedia)
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1. Centennial Comfort Stations (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    two brick buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park originally built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Centennial comfort stations are two one-story brick public restroom buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition to serve the adjacent Horticulture Building, with slate roofs and copper detailing. They are among only four Centennial Exposition buildings that survive on their original sites, and are described as perhaps the only extant restrooms from a nineteenth-century international exposition; after the Horticulture Building was demolished in 1955 the stations were used for storage, and renovation beginning in 2011 has converted the eastern station into exhibition space for the neighboring Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens, with the western station still used for storage.
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Brick buildings and structures in the United States
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2. Centennial Comfort Stations (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Comfort station)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Comfort station)
Wikidata item Q24259714, instance of (P31): comfort station
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3. Centennial Comfort Stations (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: United States
Wikidata item Q24259714, property P131/P17 (location): United States
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