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EFTA01187655 | EFTA01187663 destruction of Penn Station inspired the creation of the Landmarks Preservation Movement that saved a number of historic buildings including the wonderful Grand Central Station in New York. It had taken four years to build Pennsylvania Station. McKim's colossal structure used 27.000 tons of steel, 500,000 cubic feet of granite, 83,000 square feet of skylights and 17 million bricks. When the station was completed in 1910 thousands of spectators wandered through the station, flooding the acres of its floor space reported the New York Tribune, "gazed at the vaulted ceilingsfar above them, and pressed like caged creatures against the grill that looked down upon subterranean tracks, trains and platforms." Pennsylvania Station was a symbol not only to the greatness and power of the railroad, but also to the greatness and power of the city, it was a gift to the city as well as a creation of a corporation with a notion that private enterprise and the public good didn't contradict each other — they in fact reinforced each other. More than a half of century later my first memories of Penn Station is still indelible. You walked into the majestic structure immediately realizing that this is a wonderful space, making it one of the greatest public spaces in the country whether you are rich or poor, urban, suburban or rural. One of the unintended beneficial consequences of Penn Station was the opening up of access for the suburbs to the city. At the time that Penn Station was built, most Americans viewed railroads as symbols of progress, symbols of what the United States could achieve. Most people didn't realize what was lost until Penn Station was torn down. It is hard to get over the fact that such a wonderful place is gone. Often described as the "great martyr of historic preservation", the building that died so that we could/would save others in the future. z Inl‘ \Alainst1 I "I) 10: ...tie ^SP ''• ei. 1Ar. ,„;,.: • -- 0.--,1.1_3011latlin -S a, -rot — -__ __,..", -0 -...c.: . ... sv i,... — ---,, 9. ♦1011/4 ---ii0.‘0-41 'W am lI ia . 10 11:7; i: ,b.., —ila 110 VA-4:. ---- "\h tz tt-TC .,-T, „ 7•-•.-:Fes . -;;;k -6 0 __it i klii.5 :; .,, . % AN. --- ;;-:::..,„ = 1= •. -3,-;,.......>bia,..,1 .._•%* NW. ‘ n t% ..,2_2,v .....e. \ X \ca —• _ --‘ itt iv • — 4. itiornts) \ \ ...en .,.._Illii ,4... . ..1:vit 41•. „....... . ---1,. ist;iti,_% vir . • a• A A -442.0.--Cade. • i: ----- * _ 4-1 c •. els.- t• -.400, iral . ci 1 . On - ig r Va ii• -r . • ....-. 'i I I . ..P.. I s" M wit en r _ ..o.. d.•do•9 1•. ... •;,',,,-.5ii trill V er ' 1,e• ‘ 111 4 ,::: ?„" ..: illinSil.t,Zst: II Illilliki:. 1 --A IEN IIN NODS ;','" l H Ma ill igi idi , a "d wall I ATT 06=1'4;42'4 r - c'-‘i Ar • . ) • wa IMAM ... •', WAS " Alai It wil EFTA01187663
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