Pennsylvania Station, New York. The main waiting-room, the largest room of the kind in the world.
Description
Seventh to Eighth Avenues, 31st to 33rd Streets. Image showing magnificent Beaux-Arts architectural features such as vaulted ceiling and fluted Corinthian columns. Travelers are moving through the vast concourse. The author of the article, W. Symmes Richardson, was an engineer and a partner of Charles McKim.
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Local Subjects
Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)
Interior architecture--New York (State)--New York
McKim, Mead, & White
Terminals (Transportation)--New York (State)--New York
Historic buildings--New York (State)--New York
Note
Digital version published by City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.