30th Street Station is a major intermodal transit hub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the third busiest Amtrak station in the United States, carrying more than 5.5 million passengers as of 2025. It opened in 1933 as Pennsylvania Station-30th Street, designed by the Chicago firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White to allow through traffic between New York City and Washington, D.C. rather than the dead end arrangement of its predecessor. The building is built in a Classical Revival style with Art Deco touches, most visibly in its grand concourse, where travertine faced walls rise to a coffered ceiling painted gold, red and cream. For its era the station was unusually advanced, equipped with a pneumatic tube system, an electronic intercom, a reinforced roof strong enough for small aircraft to land on, and even hospital and mortuary facilities, reflecting its role in the newly electrified Northeast Corridor; in 2020 it was renamed in honor of the former congressman William H. Gray III.
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Building TypeRailway station (intermodal transit hub) 1 LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 1 Completed Year Classification
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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.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia article, lead paragraph, sentence 1
30th Street Station, officially William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Wikipedia article, lead paragraph, sentence 1 (location clause)
30th Street Station, officially William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Wikipedia article, lead paragraph, sentence 2
The station opened in 1933 as Pennsylvania Station-30th Street, replacing the 1881 Broad Street station as the Pennsylvania Railroad's main station in the city.
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30th Street Station is a major intermodal transit hub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the third busiest Amtrak station in the United States, carrying more than 5.5 million passengers as of 2025. It opened in 1933 as Pennsylvania Station-30th Street, designed by the Chicago firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White to allow through traffic between New York City and Washington, D.C. rather than the dead end arrangement of its predecessor. The building is built in a Classical Revival style with Art Deco touches, most visibly in its grand concourse, where travertine faced walls rise to a coffered ceiling painted gold, red and cream. For its era the station was unusually advanced, equipped with a pneumatic tube system, an electronic intercom, a reinforced roof strong enough for small aircraft to land on, and even hospital and mortuary facilities, reflecting its role in the newly electrified Northeast Corridor; in 2020 it was renamed in honor of the former congressman William H. Gray III.
Uses Element: Travertine, Wikipedia article
The vast waiting room is faced with travertine and the coffered ceiling is painted gold, red and cream.
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