Luz Station is a commuter and intercity rail station in the Bom Retiro district of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and home to the Museum of the Portuguese Language. The station first opened on February 16, 1867, and the current building, completed in 1901, was designed by the British architect Charles Henry Driver in a neoclassical style, with its ironwork manufactured by the Glasgow foundry Walter Macfarlane and Co, then shipped in pieces and reassembled in Sao Paulo. The building served as headquarters of the Sao Paulo Railway Company, which built the first rail line connecting the port of Santos to Jundiai, and after a 1946 fire it gained an additional floor during reconstruction; a further fire in 2015 destroyed part of the Museum of the Portuguese Language housed inside, killing one firefighter. Now protected as a national historic heritage site and unable to be expanded, the station handles about 147,000 passengers a day, the second busiest on Sao Paulo's metro-rail network.
Facts
Building Type LocationBairro da Luz, São Paulo, Brazil 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
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.
In Style
Source Luz Station, Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Brazil, located there.
Sources
1. Luz Station, Wikipedia
Short description
Railway station in São Paulo, Brazil
Lead, second paragraph
It is currently located in Bairro da Luz
History
The current building was finished in 1901.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Luz Station is a commuter and intercity rail station in the Bom Retiro district of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and home to the Museum of the Portuguese Language. The station first opened on February 16, 1867, and the current building, completed in 1901, was designed by the British architect Charles Henry Driver in a neoclassical style, with its ironwork manufactured by the Glasgow foundry Walter Macfarlane and Co, then shipped in pieces and reassembled in Sao Paulo. The building served as headquarters of the Sao Paulo Railway Company, which built the first rail line connecting the port of Santos to Jundiai, and after a 1946 fire it gained an additional floor during reconstruction; a further fire in 2015 destroyed part of the Museum of the Portuguese Language housed inside, killing one firefighter. Now protected as a national historic heritage site and unable to be expanded, the station handles about 147,000 passengers a day, the second busiest on Sao Paulo's metro-rail network.
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikipedia article
The edifice was rebuilt in the neoclassical style and an iron cover was installed over the entrance of the building and the platforms.
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